Before it is too late, we must narrow the gaping chasm between our proclomations of peace and our lowly deeds which precipitate and perpetuate war.
They Have Money For War But Can't Feed The Poor.
If we are to have peace on earth, our loyalties must become ecumenical rather than sectional. Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective.
I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.
Drop them or let them drop you. I chose droppin' that cop.
Time to heal our women, be real to our women. And if we don't, then we'll have a race of babies, that hate the ladies that make the babies.
I have a dream, one dream, keep dreaming. Dream of freedom, justice dreaming, dreaming of equality and hopefully no longer required to dream them
Forgive but don’t forget, girl keep your head up. And when he tells you you ain’t nothing, don’t believe him. And if he can’t learn to love you, you should leave him.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder
My place is in the sunlight of opportunity.
It is impossible to be a cynic if you live a good deal with young people. Fundamentally, every young person has a feeling that the future is going to hold something of value.
Make the most of every sense; glory in all the facets of pleasure and beauty which the world reveals to you...
Yellow M&M's don't move with green M&M's. I mean, you don't put M&M's peanuts with M&M's plain.
I don't think you can be in public life without being called bad names.
Now the baby's in the trash heap balling.
A second basic fact that characterizes nonviolence is that it does not seek to defeat or humiliate the opponent, but to win his friendship and understanding.
Imagine all of us living in peace, it's too beautiful to just be a dream.
Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friends
And before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you've depended on more than half of the world. This is the way our universe is structured, this is its interrelated quality.
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
Today is built on tragedies, which no one wants to face, nightmares to humanities and morally disgraced. Tonight is filled with rage, violence in the air, children bred with ruthlessness because no one at home cares.
Your truth will increase as you know listen to the truth of others
It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.
Life is short and unpredictable. Eat the dessert first!
Will I, succeed, paranoid from the weed and hocus pocus, try to focus but I can't see.
I'm down for you, so ride with me.My enemies your enemies,Cause you ain't ever had a friend like me.
In our society it is murder, psychologically, to deprive a man of a job or an income. You are in substance saying to that man that he has no right to exist. You are in a real way depriving him of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, denying in his case the very creed of his society.
How could you do me like that I took ya family in put some cash in ya pocket made you a man again
My cellmate's raped on the norm, and passed around the dorm, you can hear his asshole getting torn.
You'd have to give people free rein to attack the local councils or to destroy the school authorities, like the students who break up the repression in the universities. It's already happening, though people have got to get together more.
We aren't going to have peace on Earth until we recognize the basic fact of the interrelated structure of all reality.
If everything was in your favor, if you did not have to surmount any great mountains, then you have nothing to be proud of. But if you feel that you have special difficulties, then you must indeed be proud of your achievement.
My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.'
We're not disinterested in politics. It's just that politicians are disinteresting.
Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.
Happiness Is A Warm Gun not about heroin. A gun magazine was sitting there with a smoking gun on the cover and an article that I never read inside called 'Happiness Is a Warm Gun.' I took it right from there. I took it as the terrible idea of just having shot some animal.
I struggle to be rugged and raw dude, trying to survive in the trials and lawsuits, Everybody wants to test me, WHY ME?
There is in the blind as in the seeing an Absolute which gives truth to what we know to be true, order to what is orderly, beauty to the beautiful, touchableness to what is tangible.
I know I hurt you then But that was way back when.
The world in which we live is geographically one. The challenge that we face today is to make it one in terms of brotherhood.
A good many observers have remarked that if equality could come at once, the Negro would not be ready for it. I submit that the white American is even more unprepared.
Listen, if anything happens to Yoko and me, it was not an accident.
I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.
I feel that when a white child goes to school only with white children, unconsciously that child grows up in many instances devoid of a world perspective. There is an unconscious provincialism, and it can develop into an unconscious superiority complex just as a Negro develops an unconscious inferiority complex.
As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.
I do not remember a time since I have been capable of loving books that I have not loved Shakespeare.
Darkness cannot be overcome with more darkness, only with light. Violence cannot be overcome with more violence, only with peace.
There's gon' be some stuff you gon' see that's gon' make it hard to smile in the future. But through whatever you see, through all the rain and the pain, you gotta keep your sense of humor. You gotta be able to smile through all this bullshit. Remember that.
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal that this race for profit.
If our economic system is to survive, there has to be a better distribution of wealth ... we can't have a system where some people live in superfluous, inordinate wealth, while others live in abject deadening poverty.
Even a genius has his questions.
I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today - my own government.... There is something strangely inconsistent about a nation and a press that would praise you when you say, 'Be nonviolent toward Jim Clark,' but will curse and damn you when you say, 'Be nonviolent toward little brown Vietnamese children!' There is something wrong with that press.
If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
We need our radicals.
Freedom is one thing. You have it all or you are not free.
Nobody loves you when you're down and out.
I want to be with my best friend. My best friend, my wife. Who could ask for anything more?
