"The great issue of life is to..." - Quote by Martin Luther King Jr

“America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'”

“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.”

“A time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift, is approaching spiritual death.I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds or energies in rehabilitation of its poor so long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube. So I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor.”

“Women find it far more difficult to overcome their inclination to coquetry than to overcome their love.”

“Your character must be above suspicion and you must be truthful and self-controlled.”

“Don't you find that in a weak physique it is difficult to control the sex - appetite or anger?”

“The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents.”

“Yet these uneasy pleasures and fine pains are for curiosity, and not for life.”

“Let us read, and let us dance — these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”