When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else … you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.

Men have to be reminded that women exist.

We must do that which we think we cannot.

The word liberal comes from the word free. We must cherish and honor the word free or it will cease to apply to us.

a society in which there is widespread economic insecurity can turn freedom into a barren and vapid right for millions of people.

Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it.

Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world ... Such are the places where every man, woman and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere.