It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.
We rise in glory as we sink in pride.
On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.
Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
There can be no democracy without truth. There can be no truth without controversy, there can be no change without freedom. Without freedom there can be no progress.
I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.
There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.
Influence is like a savings account. The less you use it, the more you've got.
No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.
I've always seen the Olympics as a place where you could act out your differences on the athletic field with a sense of sportsmanship and fairness and mutual respect.
In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.
The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.
To whom much is given, much is required - not expected, but required.
Having personally watched the Voting Rights Act being signed into law that August day, I can't begin to imagine how we could have all been so wrong in believing that more Americans would vote once they were all truly free to do so.
One of the principles of nonviolence is that you leave your opponents whole and better off than you found them.
I have committed my life to helping the poor, and I believe that if more companies followed Wal-Mart's lead in providing opportunity and savings to those who need it most, more Americans battling poverty would realize the American dream.
Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.
I believe in humanitarian capitalism, and there are good people on Wall Street.
I'm against voter fraud in any form, and I have long supported a national voter ID card. But ID cards need not - and must not - restrict voting rights in any way, shape or form.
If Congress can move President's Day, Columbus Day and, alas, Martin Luther King's Birthday celebration for the convenience of shoppers, shouldn't they at least consider moving Election Day for the convenience of voters?
