In order to be true to one's conscience and true to God, a righteous man has no alternative but to refuse to cooperate with an evil system.

It is not a sign of weakness, but a sign of high maturity, to rise to the level of self-criticism.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act. It is a permanent attitude. That which I was not but could have been. That which I would have done but did not do. Can I find the fortitude to remember in truth,to understand, to submit, to forgive and to be free to move on in time?

Whom you would change, you must first love.

You know, my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression. There comes a time, my friends, when people get tired of being plunged across the abyss of humiliation, where they experience the bleakness of nagging despair. There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.

A man does not measure its height in moments of comfort, but in terms of change and controversy