War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

A riot is the language of the unheard.

There comes a time when silence is betrayal.

We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

Only in the darkness can you see the stars.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

It’s not burn baby burn, but learn, baby, learn, so that you can earn, baby, earn.

Our children need our presence, not our presents.

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

The best way to solve any problem is to remove its cause.

Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‘If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?’ But the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‘If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?’

Find a voice in a whisper.

No person has the right to rain on your dreams.

If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.

If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

Even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream.

This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.

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.

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values – that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

When our days become dreary with low hovering clouds of despair, and when our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, let us remember that there is a creative force in this universe, working to pull down the gigantic mountains of evil, a power that is able to make a way out of no way and transform dark yesterdays into bright tomorrows. Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.

Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction.

You can have no influence over those for whom you have underlying contempt.