The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty.

I think that we must face the fact that in reality, you cannot have economic and political equality without having some form of social equality. I think this is inevitable.

If you have not discovered something you are willing to die for, then you are not fit to live.

I've decided to stick with 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.

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.