“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
“Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education.”
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
“The time is always right to do what is right.”
“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”
“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’”
“We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.”
“I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.”
“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.”
“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”
“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”
“Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.”
“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.”
“We are not makers of history. We are made by history.”
“A riot is the language of the unheard.”
“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’”
“Everybody can be great because everybody can serve.”
“The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important.”
“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”
“It is not the absence of fear, but the overcoming of it.”
“True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.”
“An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.”
“I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”
“The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‘If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?’ But the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‘If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?’”
“We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.”
“We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back.”
“There comes a time when people get tired of being trampled by the iron feet of oppression.”
“Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education.””
“A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.”
“We are determined here in Birmingham to work and fight until justice runs down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
“The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be.”
“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
“Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.”
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Problems Considered
|Climate Change | National Debt | Income Taxes | Health Care | Abortion |
| Tariffs | Inflation | Moving On | Electrification | Homelessness |
| Independent Media | Education | Gender-neutral Pronoun|
Aphorisms
| Martin Luther King, Jr | Ghandi |
| Jesus | Jewish | Mohammad| Buddha | Hindu |
| Dick Feynman | Robert Ingersoll | Mark Twain | Will Rogers|
Anecdotes
Dick Feynman Winston Churchill