One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

War is never a lasting solution for any problem.

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

Don’t judge other people. For example, if you want God’s anointing to be on you for parenting, you need to be careful not to criticize other parents.

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.

Those who ‚abjure‘ violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That’s what capitalism is all about.

It is a hard thing to let go of mistakes we’ve made and sins. God wants us to do that because He knows the guilt and the condemnation will keep us from becoming who He has created us to be.

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

The way people look at me these days – that’s the same way I looked at President Obama before I met him. We tend to forget that people who’ve attained a certain position are human.

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

The best leaders are readers of people. They have the intuitive ability to understand others by discerning how they feel and recognizing what they sense.

The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.

In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I’ll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

People have me pinned as a shark or a predator in some way, and in no way am I that. I wouldn’t want to hurt anyone. I want to defend people. I want to help people.

Sadly, of course, there is real evil in the world. You watch the news, and you see all of the people suffering and so much cruelty.

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one’s opponent.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.

In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom – along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.

I strongly believe that for serious and violent criminals, we must absolutely hold them accountable for their crimes and send them to prison.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

When I talk to kids, I’m really listening. When I do that, we have a little bit of a bigger connection than me being Kendrick Lamar and you being a student. It’s almost like we’re friends. Because a friend listens.

I feel like I write so that people can think of it as theirs. If my song is exactly about your life right now, then it is – I don’t even want to say that it’s mine, because it’s yours.

I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.

You can’t have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

Whenever you’re going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.

Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy, but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince’s part to pardon.

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.

Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.

I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person’s shoes. Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

Let not a libation of tears be the only offering at the shrine of Jesus; let us also rejoice with joy unspeakable. If we have need to lament our sin, how much more to rejoice at our pardon!

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.

Every child that isn’t born, but is unjustly condemned to be aborted, has the face of Jesus Christ, has the face of the Lord.