“A man’s respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.”

There is no future for a people who deny their past.

I am the product of the sustained indignation of a branded grandfather, the militant protest of my grandmother

The black man continues on his way. He plods wearily no longer-he is striding freedom road with the knowledge that if he hasn’t got the world in a jug, at least he has the stopper in his hand.

Press forward at all times, climbing forward toward that higher ground of the harmonious society that shapes the laws of man to the laws of God.

No one can say Christianity has failed. It has never been tried.

We have produced a world of contented bodies and discontented minds.

The disciplined resentment of my father and mother, and the power of the mass action of the church.

Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.

It’s never the right time to take a particular stand.

For in order for capitalism to work — in order for it to produce a good and a stable society — the traditional Christian virtues are essential.

You are not your bank account, or your ambitiousness. You’re not the cold clay lump with a big belly you leave behind when you die. You’re not your collection of walking personality disorders. You are spirit, you are love.

Challenge the person you think you are in order to unveil the person you are capable of becoming

I don’t need you to myself in order to love you as my own.

Nature won’t be summoned to order and won’t be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught.

You must go into the dark in order to bring forth your light.

Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it

In order to grow, you must accept new responsibilities, no matter how uncertain you may feel or how unprepared you are to deal with them.