"If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive."

"We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. 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."

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

"Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control."

"To love deeply is to give someone the power to heal what words cannot reach. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows."

"Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind."

"A peaceful heart knows that every failure is just a stepping stone to greatness."

"To walk the path of enlightenment means the heart sees what is invisible to the eye."