NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 301

• ·       “Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.”
  ·       “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
  ·       “A riot is the language of the unheard.”
  ·       “Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.”
  ·       “We shall match your capacity to inflict suffering with our capacity to endure suffering. Do to us what you will and we shall continue to love you.”
  ·       “Morality cannot be legislated but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.”
  ·       “The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically… Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education.”
  ·       “We are not makers of history. We are made by history.”
  ·       “If a man hasn’t discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.”
  ·       “Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.”
  ·       “We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.”