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

Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

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.

But I say to you, my friends, there are certain things in our nation and in the world which I am proud to be maladjusted and which I hope all men of good-will will be maladjusted until the good societies realize.

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.

Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of communism nor the antithesis of capitalism but in a higher synthesis. It is found in a higher synthesis that combines the truths of both.