My obligation is to do the right thing. The rest is in God's hands.

We cannot walk alone.

One of these days I'm going to put my body where my mind is.

We will not build a peaceful world by following a negative path. It is not enough to say we will not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war, but on the positive affirmation of peace

We can either walk the highroad of brotherhood or the low road of man's inhumanity to man.

As long as there is poverty in the world I can never be rich, even if I have a billion dollars. As long as diseases are rampant and millions of people in this world cannot expect to live more than twenty-eight or thirty years, I can never be totally healthy even if I just got a good checkup at Mayo Clinic. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the way our world is made. No individual or nation can stand out boasting of being independent. We are interdependent.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.