From his example in this respect I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I learned that assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; and that oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak. It is now long ago that I learned this lesson from General Armstrong, and resolved that I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

You know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That insight helps you not to do wrong things that will bring suffering to yourself and to other people.

As you look at me and listen to me, please remember the often repeated truth that one prisoner of conscience is one too many.

I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background, and I think the greatest thing to do is to pray that God will give you love for them, and I do.

Lick your neighbor as yourself!

We Negroes love our country. We fought for it. We ask only that we be treated as well as those who fought against it.

The goal of 'The Purpose Driven Life' is to help people develop a heart for the world.

Do whatever comes your way to do as well as you can. Think as little as possible about yourself. Think as much as possible about other people. Dwell on things that are interesting. Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

We are commanded to love our neighbors as ourselves, and I believe that to love ourselves means to extend to those various selves that we have been along the way the same degree of compassion and concern that we would extend to anyone else.

Blessed also are the poor in spirit socially.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

No man has believed perfectly until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself.