Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority. (1963)
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction....The chain reaction of evil--hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars--must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.(1963)
It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important. (November 13, 1962)
The last quotation is really good; it gets to a real kernel of the matter.
Posted by: Bardiac | Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 07:32 AM
I love that quote too; was so pleased to find it!
Posted by: New Kid on the Hallway | Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 09:44 PM