The whole universe is contained within a single human being – you.

Free at last, free at last. Thank God almighty we are free at last.

We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation. This may well be mankind’s last chance to choose between chaos and community.

Whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity and it has worth.

Make a career of humanity… It will enrich your spirit as nothing else possibly can. It will give you that rare sense of nobility that can only spring from love and selflessly helping your fellow man… You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in.

This often misunderstood and misinterpreted concept has now become an absolute necessity for the survival of man.

My faith in man is, at bottom, a faith in God.

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.

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

Music is the best consolation for a despaired man.

We must shift the arms race into a ‘peace race’.

Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.

There is no deficit in human resources; the deficit is in human will.

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

"Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures --in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together."

"I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin."

One great question underlies our experience, whether we think about it or not: what is the purpose of life?… From the moment of birth every human being wants happiness and does not want suffering. Neither social conditioning nor education nor ideology affects this. From the very core of our being, we simply desire contentment… Therefore, it is important to discover what will bring about the greatest degree of happiness.

The goal is not to be better than the other man, but your previous self.