The ugliness of bigotry stands in direct contradiction to the very meaning of America.

What do we want for people? Human dignity, personal expression and fulfillment, justice, freedom.

What you do, what each of us does, has an effect on the country, the state, the nation, and the world.

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

My friends, to those who say that we are rushing this issue of civil rights, I say to them we are 172 years late. To those who say that this civil-rights program is an infringement on states’ rights, I say this: The time has arrived in America for the Democratic Party to get out of the shadow of states' rights and to walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights.

Peace of mind is another way of saying that you've learned how to love, that you have come to appreciate the importance of giving love in order to be worthy of receiving it.

There is a lot of difference between failure and defeat. Failure is when you are defeated and neither learn nor contribute anything.