The principal factors which influenced my life are 1) nonviolent tactics 2) constitutional means 3) democratic procedures 4) respect for human personality 5) a belief that all people are one.

Let us be enraged about injustice, but let us not be destroyed by it.

We are all one - and if we don't know it, we will learn it the hard way.

We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers.

When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.

The real radical is that person who has a vision of equality and is willing to do those things that will bring reality closer to that vision. . .

The only weapon we have is our bodies, and we need to tuck them in places so wheels don't turn

To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.

If I do not fight bigotry wherever it is, bigotry is thereby strengthened. And to the degree that it is strengthened, it will, thereby, have the power to turn on me.

The moral man is he who is opposed to injustice per se, opposed to injustice wherever he finds it; the moral man looks for injustice first of all in himself.

Every indifference to prejudice is suicide because, if I don’t fight all bigotry, bigotry itself will be strengthened and, sooner or later, it will return on me.

The sh*t's gonna splatter, start buggin, yo..."Mencheres to Cat

Women's natural role is to be a pillar of the family.

Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep'rate friends.

Chastisement is designed for our good, to promote our highest interests. Look beyond the rod to the All-wise hand that wields it!

Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth.

An athlete needs to read situations before they happen.

The writer must not invent. The legend on the license must read: NONE OF THIS WAS MADE UP.

It takes 50 years to get a wrong idea out of medicine, and 100 years a right one into medicine.

Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them.