“I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.” (Susan B. Anthony)

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“God grant that as men and women all over the world struggle against evil systems they will struggle with love in their hearts, with understanding good will.” (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

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“As you press on for justice, be sure to move with dignity and discipline, using only the weapon of love. Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.” (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

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“To meet hate with retaliatory hate would do nothing of evil in the universe. Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love; we must meet physical force with soul force.” (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

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“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.” (Abraham Lincoln)

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“With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan—to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.” (Abraham Lincoln)

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“I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least.”
(Dorothy Day)

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“We cannot love God unless we love each other, and to love we must know each other.... True love is delicate and kind, full of gentle perception and understanding, full of beauty and grace, full of joy unutterable. There should be some flavor of this in all our love for others. We are all one. We are one flesh in the Mystical Body as man and woman are said to be one flesh in marriage. With such a love one would see all things new; we would begin to see people as they really are, as God sees them.”  (Dorothy Day)

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​“My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side....”  (Abraham Lincoln)