We are afraid. But fear confirms life and identifies the source of every successful argument - ourselves.

We could advance the human race enormously if we but learned to communicate honestly with our neighbors.

It is an anomaly that we can split the atom, but we are nearly powerless to persuade each other to embrace justice.

Once slavery in America was not seen as radical. It became, instead, a revolutionary idea that slaves should be freed. When we have lived under a pernicious power long enough, no matter how oppressive, we grow so accustomed to the yoke that its removal seems frightening, even wrong.

A new fascism promises security from the terror of crime. All that is required is that we take away the criminals' rights - which, of course, are our own. Out of our desperation and fear we begin to feel a sense of security from the new totalitarian state.

The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power.

The erosion of a nation's concern for life and for individual rights, has always preceded the intrusion of tyranny.