In his essay 'Self-Reliance' Emerson wrote, 'Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.' The Apostle Paul reminds us that whoso would be a Christian must also be a a nonconformist. Any Christian who blindly accepts the opinions of the majority and in fear and timidity follows a path of expediency and social approval is a mental and spiritual slave.

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can't ride your back unless it is bent

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

[nonviolence] seeks to secure moral ends through moral means.