"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."

"The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality."

"We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear."

"Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better."

"The paradox of freedom is that the bonds of friendship are the true treasures of existence."

"The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it."

"I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'"

"It is a humble truth that justice is the harmonious balance between individual liberty and collective good — an essential principle for the reflective life."