Humanity
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

Military Issues
I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of nuclear annihilation... I believe that even amid today's mortar bursts and whining bullets, there is still hope for a brighter tomorrow... I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the altars of God and be crowned triumphant over war and bloodshed.

Belief
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

Birthday
The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.

Character
The time is always right to do what is right.

Character
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and conveniences, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Challenge
The ultimate measure of a person is not where they stand in moments of comfort and convenience, but where the stand in times of challenge and controversy.

Belief
We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.

Racism
The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.

Strength
The ultimate test of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and moments of convenience, but where he stands in moments of challenge and moments of controversy.

Justice
There are two types of laws -- there are just laws and there are unjust laws... What is the difference between the two? An unjust law is a man-made code that is out of harmony with the moral law.

Conflict
A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.

Law
An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

Conflict
At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

Nobility
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

Service
Everybody can be great, because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

Vision
Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

Values
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

Conflict
Nonviolence is absolute commitment to the way of love. Love is not emotional bash; it is not empty sentimentalism. It is the active outpouring of one's whole being into the being of another.

Expression
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Power
Our nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling power.

Appreciation
The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.

Faith
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

Freedom
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

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