One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that ' an unjust law is no law at all.

We aren't going to have peace on Earth until we recognize the basic fact of the interrelated structure of all reality.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

If you can't be a sun, be a star. For it isn't by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are.

But life at its best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony.

A right delayed is a right denied.

Nonviolent action, the Negro saw, was the way to supplement, not replace, the progress of change. It was the way to divest himself of passivity without arraying himself in vindictive force.