One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust ... is in reality expressing the highest respect for law ... We will not obey your evil laws.

History has thrust something upon me from which I cannot turn away.

It is always the right time to do the right thing.

We must all learn to live together as brothers. Or we will all perish together as foolsFor some strange reason I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. And you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be.

The softminded person always wants to freeze the moment and hold life in the gripping yoke of sameness.

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

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.