Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.

The way we treat our children in the dawn of their lives and the way we treat our elderly in the twilight of their lives is a measure of the quality of a nation.

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

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

There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.

In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.

If I believe in something, I will fight for it, with all I have. But I do not demand all or nothing. I would rather get something than nothing.