When aroused the American conscience is a powerful force for reform.

It's going to take an act of Congress to deal with poverty and hunger, not only in this country, but throughout the world. We have the resources but we don't have the will.

The greatest violence is seeing a child go to bed hungry.

Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.

There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens.

nonviolence first changes the individual.

Lesbian and gay people are a permanent part of the American workforce, who currently have no protection from the arbitrary abuse of their rights on the job.