Wisdom

Protest without purpose is a perversion of democratic privilege.

There is a narrow but distinct line between productive dissent and counter-productive disruption. It is possible to dissent without being destructive.

The right to protest exists to protect the powerless from the powerful. When protest itself becomes a form of power, it must be exercised with the same responsibility we demand of all power.

For peace is a process — a way of solving problems.

The great challenge facing every individual graduating today is to remain awake through great periods of social change.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

Through our scientific genius we have made of this world a neighborhood; now through our moral and spiritual genius we must make of it a brotherhood.

Throughout the world, mutual suspicions flourish in ignorance and misunderstanding. They can be dispelled only with knowledge and wisdom.

Hand and head and heart were made to work together. They must work together. They should be educated together.

You cannot tell from appearances how things will go. Sometimes imagination makes things out far worse than they are; yet without imagination not much can be done.

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.