The first step toward liberation of any group is to use the power in hand... And the power in hand is the vote.

I realized that public affairs were also my affairs. I became active in politics because I saw the possibility, if we all sat back and did nothing, of a world in which there would no longer be any stages for actors to act on.

The ... irrational fear of communism is being deliberately used in many quarters to blind us to our real problems.

When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place

You cannot barter security for freedom, or freedom for security.

Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains.

A vigorous democracy a democracy in which there are freedom from want, freedom from fear, freedom of religion, and freedom of speech would never succumb to communism or any other ism.