Like anybody, I would like to have a long life. Longevity ha... - Martin Luther King Jr.

"On some positions, cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? Conscience asks the question, is it right?There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right."

"Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others."

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice."

"It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important."