“But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.”

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

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

Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.

There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.

A right delayed is a right denied.

A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.

Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.

Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can’t ride your back unless it is bent

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.

The time is always right to do the right thing.

The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.

Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.

He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.

It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.

Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.

But it is in the darkest nights, when storms are blowing and the agitated waves are phosphorescent, that the most impressive displays are made.

Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness.

I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.

We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are.

The only lightless dark is the night of ingnorance and insensibility.