For you will never be what you ought to be until they [your fellow humans] are what they ought to be.

Never could I advocate nonviolence in this country and not advocate nonviolence for the whole world.

I have DECIDED to love. If you are seeking the highest good, I think you can find it through love. GOD is love.

‎It is a cruel injustice to tell a bootless man to pull himself up by his bootstraps.

The sooner our society admits that the Negro Revolution is no momentary outburst soon to subside into placid passivity, the easier the future will be for us all.

Like anybody, I would like to have a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will.

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.