It is our experience that the nation doesn't move around questions of genuine equality for the poor and for black people until it is confronted massively, dramatically in terms of direct action.

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

This democracy thing, or Demoxie, whatever it is, good god. Under the guise of having every voice heard, you create mob rule, a filterless society where secrets are crimes.

It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles, and that help must come from without.

I make little distinction between those who commit evil and those who stand by and do nothing.

I have somewhere read that conscience not only sits as witness and judge within our bosoms, but also forms the prison of punishment.

A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and to degrade religion.

A wise man neither suffers himself to be governed, nor attempts to govern others.

If you're in a bar and a certain song comes on and the vibe is just different, it evokes the kinds of things that you want to feel, and if music can do that it's a very special thing.

When people see some things as good, other things become bad.

[On whether she would want daughter Tricia to marry a politician:] I would feel sorry for her if she did.

The message sent is not always the message received.