A final victory is an accumulation of many short-term encounters. To lightly dismiss a success because it does not usher in a complete order of justice is to fail to comprehend the process of achieving full victory.

It's not how long a man lives, but how well he uses the time allotted him.

We must have our freedom now. We must have the right to vote. We must have equal protection of the law.

If I hit you and you hit me and I hit you back and you hit me back and go on, you see, that goes on ad infinitum. It just never ends. Somewhere somebody must have a little sense, and that's the strong person.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

But though I was initially disappointed at being categorized as an extremist, as I continued to think about the matter I gradually gained a measure of satisfaction from the label. Was not Jesus an extremist for love: “Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.”

One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong