If you're wearing a pair of shoes that's a little flashy, then it's important not to be flashy up top and vice versa.
When any society says that I cannot marry a certain person, that society has cut off a segment of my freedom.
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.
Whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity and it has worth.
A social movement that only moves people is merely a revolt. A movement that changes both people and institutions is a revolution.
Freedom has always been an expensive thing. History is fit testimony to the fact that freedom is rarely gained without sacrifice and self-denial.
I always had a deep affection for Malcolm and felt that he had a great ability to put his finger on the existence and the root of the problem. He was an eloquent spokesman for his point of view and no one can honestly doubt that Malcolm had a great concern for the problems we face as a race.
When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands the unfitness of the means. The ulterior motives with which youabsorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil. . . . Evil is whatever distracts. Evil knows of the Good, but Good does not know of Evil. Knowledge of oneself is something only Evil has. One means that Evil has is the dialogue. . . . One cannot pay Evil in installments--and one always keeps on trying to.
We can learn from history, but we can also deceive ourselves when we selectively take evidence from the past to justify what we have already made up our minds to do.
You know, I really don't think you learn from teachers. You learn from work. I think what you learn, really, is how to be- you have to be your own toughest critic, and you only learn that from work, from seeing work.
When we pray "in the Name of Jesus" the answers are in accordance with His nature, and if we think our prayers are unanswered it is because we are not interpreting the answer along this line.