The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

Once you become dedicated to a cause, personal security is not the goal. What will happen to you personally does not matter. My cause, my race, is worth dying for.

I am convinced that...in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic companionship.

We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, producing fears and anxieties that science can never mitigate.

Don't allow anybody to make you feel that you're nobody.

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.