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

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

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.

There comes a time when silence is betrayal.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.

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

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.