Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden.
But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.
For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Wherever I go meeting the public... spreading a message of human values, spreading a message of harmony, is the most important thing.
Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world which is a playground of illusion, full of false paths, false values and false ideals. But you are not part of that world.
One American said that the most interesting thing about Holy Ireland was that its people hate each other in the name of Jesus Christ. And they do!
As an Apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ, I testify to you this day that the time will come when every one of us will look into the Savior's loving eyes.
Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.
Forgiveness is God's command.
The last of our enemies is laid low.
Such problems are not solved in one day but there is a great step toward peace and security in the region.
The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.
Global poverty is the product of reversible policy failures overseen by politicians, past and present. The poorest of the poor don't vote in American or European elections. They don't make donations to political parties or hire lobbyists in D.C., London or Canberra.
It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.
Of all the things we have done, the most important - the one that history will record as the principal contribution of our generation - is that we understand how to turn the armed struggle into a Revolution; that we realized that it was essential to create a new mentality to build a new society.
I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.
Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.
I like Mr. Gorbachev, we can do business together.
Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.
I would submit to you that our greatest need is to rediscover the gospel of Jesus Christ and to proclaim it. I have always said this, especially to the young missionaries that I have dealt with.
Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.
More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him.
Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.
Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.
I am tired of talk that comes to nothing.
As they come forth, Lord, to sow, release upon them, Father, the power to get, to create, to receive wealth in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.
Be thou comforted, little dog, Thou too in Resurrection shall have a little golden tail.
We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
The principle of self defense, even involving weapons and bloodshed, has never been condemned, even by Gandhi.
The mind is always present. You just don't see it.
In the old days, when Muhammad Ali was fighting Ken Norton, Joe Frazier and George Foreman, there was a lot of excitement in the heavyweight division, I have to admit it.
I consider myself as a free spokesman for the people.