Humanity

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.”

Never apologize for having high standards. People who really want to be in your life will rise up to meet them.

It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly. 

From the time you were very little, you’ve had people who have smiled you into smiling, people who have talked you into talking, sung you into singing, loved you into loving. Let’s take some time to think of those extra special people. 

The soul is awakened through service.

Do what is right, not what is easy nor what is popular. 

I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

From the time you were very little, you’ve had people who have smiled you into smiling, people who have talked you into talking, sung you into singing, loved you into loving. Let’s take some time to think of those extra special people.

The soul is awakened through service.

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, “What are you doing for others?”

Imagine this: a nation that is set up with individual families that are thriving, that are healthy, that communicate, that raise their children in love, have a better rate of becoming better human beings and that’s what we need to create.

Black men, it starts with you, it’s done man, we can’t be trash no more. We have to be better. Black lives have always mattered. We have always been important. We have always meant something. We have always succeeded regardless. And now is the time. I ain’t waiting.

One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings.

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.

Life’s most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?

Laundry is the only thing that should be separated by color.

It is clear that the way to heal society of its violence . . . and lack of love is to replace the pyramid of domination with the circle of equality and respect

It belongs to the very substance of nonviolence never to destroy or damage another person’s feeling of self worth, even an opponent’s.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror

The ultimate measure of a person is not where one stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where one stands in times of challenge and controversy.

No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger than its weakest people, and as long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you might otherwise.

The beauty of anti-racism is that you don’t have to pretend to be free of racism to be an anti-racist. Anti-racism is the commitment to fight racism wherever you find it, including in yourself. And it’s the only way forward.

None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences

In a racist society, it is not enough to be non-racist. We must be anti-racist.

An eye for an eye makes the world blind.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Hating each other because of their colour is wrong and it doesn’t matter which colour does the hating. It’s just wrong.

If tolerance, respect and equity permeate family life, they will translate into values that shape societies, nations and the world.

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.