One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying.

The truth may hurt, but love helps ease the pain.

Jesus recognized that love is greater than like.

It is appalling that the most segregated hour of Christian America is eleven o'clock on Sunday morning.

As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.

I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

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.