“Only a "dry as dust" religion prompts a minister to extol the glories of Heaven while ignoring the social conditions that cause men an Earthly hell.” 

“A social movement that only moves people is merely a revolt. A movement that changes both people and institutions is a revolution.”

“It is precisely this collision of immoral power with powerless morality which constitutes the major crisis of our times.”

“Today it is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence; it is either nonviolence or nonexistence.”

“Only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.”

“Hate is too big of burden to bear. I have decided to love.”

“And when you come to the point that you look in the face of every man and see deep down within him what religion calls "the image of God," you begin to love him in spite of. No matter what he does, you see God’s image there. There is an element of goodness that he can never sluff off. Discover the element of good in your enemy. And as you seek to hate him, find the center of goodness and place your attention there and you will take a new attitude. Another way that you love your enemy is this: When the opportunity presents itself for you to defeat your enemy, that is the time which you must not do it. There will come a time, in many instances, when the person who hates you most, the person who has misused you most, the person who has gossiped about you most, the person who has spread false rumors about you most, there will come a time when you will have an opportunity to defeat that person. It might be in terms of a recommendation for a job; it might be in terms of helping that person to make some move in life. That’s the time you must do it. That is the meaning of love. In the final analysis, love is not this sentimental something that we talk about. It’s not merely an emotional something. Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual. When you rise to the level of love, of its great beauty and power, you seek only to defeat evil systems. Individuals who happen to be caught up in that system, you love, but you seek to defeat the system.”

“If you have not discovered something you are willing to die for, then you are not fit to live.”

“Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.”

“We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.”

“For you will never be what you ought to be until they [your fellow humans] are what they ought to be.”

“I have a dream. I have a dream that one day, people will be judged by the content of their character, not by the color of their skin.”

“It may be true that the law cannot change the heart, but it can restrain the heartless.”

“От щастието хората оглупяват повече, отколкото от нещастието”

“In some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty. ”