“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”
“Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!”
“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: “What are you doing for others?””
“The time is always right to do what is right.”
“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.”
“Security is mostly a superstition.”
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.”
“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.”
“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”
“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.”
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”
“The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.”
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”
“Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.”
“My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.”