An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.

Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual.

It is hardly a moral act to encourage others patiently to accept injustice which he himself does not endure.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.