One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change.

Without love, benevolence becomes egotism.

Courageous men never lose the zest for living even though their life situation is zestless; cowardly men, overwhelmed by the uncertainties of life, lose the will to live. We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.

I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism.

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.

But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.