There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.

National isolation breeds national neurosis.

Until racial justice and freedom is a reality in this land, our union will remain profoundly imperfect.

You cannot go around and keep score. If you keep score on the good things and the bad things, you'll find out that you're a very miserable person. God gave man the ability to forget, which is one of the greatest attributes you have. Because if you remember everything that's happened to you, you generally remember that which is the most unfortunate.

We live by hope. We do not ever get all we want when we want it. But we have to believe that someday, somehow, some way, it will be better and that we can make it so.