People can only make you inferior with your consent.

Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.

All of us in this country give lip service to the ideals set forth in the Bill of Rights and emphasized by every additional amendment, and yet when war is stirring in the world, many of us are ready to curtail our civil liberties. We do not stop to think that curtailing these liberties may in the end bring us a greater danger than the danger we are trying to avert.

Spiritual leadership should remain spiritual leadership and the temporal power should not become too important in any church.

What we apparently have failed to grasp is that, in this new world in which we live, the collective hunger of great masses of people, wherever they may be, will affect our long-range welfare, just as though they were our own people.

I have always felt that it was important that everyone who was a worker join a labor organization.

The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life.