The road to freedom is a difficult, hard road. It always makes for temporary setbacks.

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

I still have a dream today that one day war will come to an end, that men will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks, that nations will no longer rise up against nations, neither will they study war any more.

Lukewarm acceptance is more bewildering than outright rejection.

Every word and deed must contribute to an understanding with the enemy and release those vast reservoirs of goodwill which have been blocked by impenetrable walls of hate.

When people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory.

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.