“Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.”

Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

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

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

In overthrowing me, you have done no more than cut down the trunk of the tree of the black liberty in Saint-Domingue; it will spring back from the roots, for they are numerous and deep.