One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.
Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.
Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.
You may turn into an archangel, a fool, or a criminal ? no one will see it. But when a button is missing?everyone sees that.
We have to heal our wounded world. The chaos, despair, and senseless destruction we see today are a result of the alienation that people feel from each other and their environment.
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 question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others, crazy?
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.
Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
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.
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
There is no come back to caves. We are too many.
Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.
It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.
One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.
Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.
