People with good intentions but limited understanding are more dangerous than people with total ill will.

The truth may hurt, but love helps ease the pain.

My place is in the sunlight of opportunity.

Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God’s children.

Gandhi was inevitable. If humanity is to progress, Gandhi is inescapable. He lived, thought and acted, inspired by the vision of humanity evolving toward a world of peace and harmony. We may ignore Gandhi at our own risk.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.