Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right?

Love is understanding, redemptive goodwill for all men, so that you love everybody.

Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in.

Be an artist at whatever you do. Even if you are a street sweeper, be the Michelangelo of street sweepers.

The surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.

I think the inconveniences of a segregated education are much greater than the inconveniences of busing students so that they can get an integrated quality education.

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.