Action Quotes

"It doesn't do good to open doors for someone who doesn't have the price to get in. If he has the price, he may not need the laws. There is no law saying the Negro has to live in Harlem or Watts."

"A good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do."

"The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself."

"The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion."

"I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself."

"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary the evil it does is permanent."

"A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better."

"The evil that men do lives after them the good is oft interred with their bones."

"Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do."

"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."

"I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me."

"There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him."

"The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory."

"There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him."

"If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe."

"I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should."

"I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it."

"The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work."

"I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen."

"We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls."