A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
A coward dies a thousand deaths, the gallant never taste of death but once.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
Bombs and pistols do not make a revolution. The sword of revolution is sharpened on the whetting stone of ideas.
Revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. – We are the ones We’ve been waiting for. – We are the change that we seek.
Whether our task is fighting poverty, stemming the spread of disease or saving innocent lives from mass murder, we have seen that we cannot succeed without the leadership of the strong and engagement of all.
Political tyranny is nothing compared to social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies government.
To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.