“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.”

True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.

Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.

If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they have not communicated with each other.

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor.

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.

Young men’s minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.

Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor.

What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!

Life is busy. There are daily concerns and obligations that have to be met, and to take time to think about how precious and special a human life is that you only get one, and that every wasted minute is lost. You can’t get it back.

We humans are more concerned with having than with being.

People become concerned with being more humble than other people.

We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.

I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.