It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.
These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.
A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
More than 26,000 lives may be lost to the effects of drug abuse this year. This tragic impact is felt in communities across this great nation. Sadly many of these deaths occur among our young people.
A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
Americans of our own time - minority and majority Americans alike - need the continued guidance that the Voting Rights Act provides. We have come a long way, but more needs to be done.
We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.
The greatest attitude of all is gratitude.
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
Are we happy that our grandchildren may never seen an elephant except in a picture book?
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others, crazy?
It’s extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
