I may not get there with you, but I believe that we as a people will someday reach the promised land.

When any society says that I cannot marry a certain person, that society has cut off a segment of my freedom.

The strong man is the man who can stand up for his rights and not hit back.

We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.

Education without morals is like a ship without a compass, merely wandering nowhere.

It's not how long a man lives, but how well he uses the time allotted him.

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