What good is having the right to sit at a lunch counter if you can't afford to buy a hamburger?

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

I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.

The truth is . . . you think what people want you to think.

All men have an equal disposition for understanding.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

I don't want to coexist. I want to exist as a human being. And justice will take care of the rest.

The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.

My concentration was really on getting to university and becoming a doctor. My parents let me know that school marks were important. Achievement was something which came by hard work.

There may be one fault in a man that conceals a thousand qualities, or one excellence that conceals a thousand faults. The little indicates much.

Everywhere I go in the world, people know me and recognise me and really show affection for me.