The question is not if we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremist… - Martin Luther King Jr.

Perhaps…the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying. A persistent schizophrenia leaves so many of us tragically divided against ourselves. On the one hand, we proudly profess certain sublime and noble principles, but on the other hand, we sadly practise the very antithesis of these principles. How often are our lives characterised by a high blood pressure of creeds and an anaemia of deeds! We talk eloquently about our commitment to the principles of Christianity, and yet our lives are saturated with the practices of paganism. We proclaim our devotion to democracy, but we sadly practise the very opposite of the democratic creed. We talk passionately about peace, and at the same time we assiduously prepare for war. We make our fervent pleas for the high road of justice, and then we tread unflinchingly the low road of injustice. This strange dichotomy, this agonising gulf between the ought and the is, represents the tragic theme of man's earthly pilgrimage.

A social movement that only moves people is merely a revolt. A movement that changes both people and institutions is a revolution.

A penny saved is of more value than a penny paid out (Der Sparpfennig ist reicher denn der Zinspfenning).