Great people aren't those who are happy at times of convienience and content, but of how they are in times of catastrophy and controversy.

Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.

If you have not discovered something you are willing to die for, then you are not fit to live.

There is no deficit in human resources; the deficit is in human will.

Injustice and corruption will never be transformed by keeping them hidden, but only by bringing them out into the light and confronting them with the power of love.

Never could I advocate nonviolence in this country and not advocate nonviolence for the whole world.

In spite of the fact that the law of revenge solves no social problems, men continue to follow its disastrous leading. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path.