A lawyer is either a social engineer or he is a parasite on society.

A lawyer’s either a social engineer or … a parasite on society … A social engineer [is] a highly skilled, perceptive, sensitive lawyer who [understands] the Constitution of the United States and [knows] how to explore its uses in the solving of problems of local communities and in bettering conditions of the underprivileged citizens.

The American color bar unless speedily removed will be the rock on which our international Good Neighbor policy and our pious claims to moral leadership will founder.

The individual college youth cannot wait forever until the problem of his education is decided.

Whether elected or appointed, public officials serve those who put and keep them in office. We cannot depend upon them to fight our battles.

The race problem in the United States is the type of unpleasant problem which we would rather do without but which refuses to be buried.

Christianity has always seemed to fight a losing battle against race.