He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
I submit to you that if a man hasn’t discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.
Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’
Life’s most urgent question is: what are you doing for others?
Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.
Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.