There are those who say to you - we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late.

To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.

If today there is a proper American "sphere of influence" it is this fragile sphere called earth upon which all men live and share a common fate--a sphere where our influence must be for peace and justice.

The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.

Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.

The time has arrived in America for the Democratic Party to get out of the shadows of states rights and walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.