To have serpentlike qualities devoid of dovelike qualities is to be passionless, mean, and selfish.

I've seen too much hate to want to hate, myself.

The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever-recurring song of retaliation.

If you haven't found something worth dying for, you're not fit to live.

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

When our days become dreary with low hovering clouds of despair, and when our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, let us remember that there is a creative force in this universe, working to pull down the gigantic mountains of evil, a power that is able to make a way out of no way and transform dark yesterdays into bright tomorrows. Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.

One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that ' an unjust law is no law at all.