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.

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.

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

We will be remembered not for the power of our weapons but for the power of our compassion, our dedication to human welfare.

History teaches us that the great revolutions aren't started by people who are utterly down and out, without hope and vision. They take place when people begin to live a little better - and when they see how much yet remains to be achieved.

The measure of a civilization is how it treats those at the dawn of life, the margins of life and the twilight of life.

The history of the labor movement needs to be taught in every school in this land. America is a living testimonial to what free men and women, organized in free democratic trade unions can do to make a better life. We ought to be proud of it!