“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.”

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.

It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it.

No person has the right to rain on your dreams.

There comes a time when silence is betrayal.

Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.

We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.

I am finding the courage to breathe as I am.

What good are wings without the courage to fly?

You gave me the courage to rise but my darling robin why did you fly leaving me behind these four walls all alone?

The art to breathe and smile despite the pressure of anxiety, takes courage and power, keep appreciating yourself.

It is an act of courage every time you create. Stay brave.

I’m not the fighter I used to be no courage left in me in my safe place and on my own I’m trying to build a home.

People leave when they don’t find the courage to admit they are wrong.

whatever your career may be, do not let yourselves become tainted by a deprecating and barren scepticism, do not let yourselves be discouraged by the sadness of certain hours which pass over nations.