It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity.

I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed, without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today – my own government.

We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for the victims of our nation and for those it calls enemy, for no document from human hands can make these humans any less our brothers and sisters.

The greatness of man cannot be seen in the hours of comfort and convenience, but rather in moments of conflict/adversity

There's something about love that builds up and is creative. There is something about hate that tears down and is destructive. So love your enemies.