Perhaps the worst sin in life is knowing right and not doing it.

Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.

To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right.

Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper.

Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten. A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past when the ravages persist into the present. America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay. If it loses the will to finish or slackens in its determination, history will recall its crimes and the country that would be great will lack the most indispensable element of greatness — justice.

Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. [...] You only need a heart full of grace.

Too unconcerned to love and too passionless to hate, too detached to be selfish and too lifeless to be unselfish, too indifferent to experience joy and too cold to express sorrow, they are neither dead nor alive; they merely exist.