A riot is the language of the unheard. On blacks in America; address at Birmingham AL

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.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.

The time is always right to do what is right.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

The time is always right to do the right thing.

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

It's not the violence of the few that scares me, it's the silence of the many

Integrity is the sentry for the conscious soul.

The best proof of intelligent life in space is that it hasn't come here.

Public opinion is always more tyrannical towards those who obviously fear it than towards those who feel indifferent to it.

Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.

People want opportunity so they can earn security.

My one aim in life is to secure personal holiness, for without being holy myself I cannot promote real holiness in others.

What place does a woman have here, in the realm of men?

I never really liked Italy. 'Lots of cement' is my long-standing quote.

You can't prevent a possible future closeness between your upcoming child and one or more of their grandparents.

A thing is a thing, not what is said of that thing.