“It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.”

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.

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

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.

If i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death.

Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.

Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Love endures in adversity, is moderate in prosperity; brave under harsh sufferings, cheerful in good works; utterly reliable in temptation, utterly open-handed in hospitality; as happy as can be among true brothers and sisters, as patient as you can get among the false one’s.

Cheers for spring; for life; for a growing soul.

The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.

The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.

When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.