(158 quotes found)
“Love is the only cement that can hold this broken community together.When I am commanded to love, I am commanded to restore community, to resist injustice, and to meet the needs fo my brothers.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“We must use time creatively.”
“Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective.”
“The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.”
“Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'”
“Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.”
“An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.”
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.”
“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.”
