The proof that one truly believes is in action.

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.

Some writers write about love

I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.

We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.

When you go through a trial, the sovereignty of God is the pillow upon which you lay your head.

As a former high school teacher, I know that investing in education is one of the most important things we can do, not only for our children, but for the benefit of our whole community.

I know a good woman who thinks that her son lost his life because he took to drinking water only.

Anything in literature, including memory, is second-hand.

Truth is just as essential to nourishing the mind as food is to nourishing the body. The more fully you live each moment in truth, the more powerful and effective those moments will be.

The measure of a man is what happens when nothing works and you got the guts to go on.

I oppose registration for the draft... because I believe the security of freedom can best be achieved by security through freedom.