"People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they have not communicated with each other."
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
"Let no man pull you low enough to hate him."
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
"Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people."
"I submit that 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."