He who blackens others does not whiten himself.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

Extremists on all sides thrive, fed by the blood lust of centuries gone by.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction: or, the mutual actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal, and directed to contrary parts.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise.

Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky.

When elephants fight, ants get killed.

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism… The one absolutely certain way of brining this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find a better man.

Peaces comes from within. Do not seek it without.

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.

True success, true wealth, does not come out of the barrel of a gun.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

Madness does not govern a country; discussion does.

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

Racism is not dead, but it is on life support—kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as ‘racists’.

Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world, individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever.

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.