“Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.”

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.

We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.

One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.

No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.

Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase.

Violence is not only impractical but immoral.

One of the great problems of mankind is that we suffer from a poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring contrast to our scientific and technological abundance.

Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.

Our triumph over sorrow is not that we can avoid it but that we can endure it. And therein lies our hope; that in spirit we might become bigger than the problems we face.

I’ve never understood the female capacity to avoid a direct answer to any question.

What the hell-you might be right, you might be wrong but don’t just avoid.

Avoid being seized by the police. The cops are not your friends. Don’t tell them anything.

When you run for president you have certain obligations. One of them would be to avoid even the appearance of conflicts of interest.

The best fights are the ones we avoid.

If you strive only to avoid the darkness or to cling to the light, you cannot live in balance. Try striving to be conscious of all that you are.

It doesn’t cost anything to say hi when you pass someone else in the hallway, whereas, most corporations if you pass you avoid eye contact.