Stand up for justice, stand up for truth; and God will be at your side forever.

If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.

So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord!

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

You can have no influence over those for whom you have underlying contempt.

Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation.

If a man has not discovered anything so dying is not worth living