Here we are the way politics ought to be in America; the politics of happiness, the politics of purpose and the politics of joy.

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

Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.

We will have to decide today whether we will design the future or resign ourselves to it.

In this time of national crises...per haps we would do well to spend a few minutes in considering projects which grace and embellish the earth, instead of shaking it.

The leadership for civil rights has to take place in the White House or it is going to take place in the streets.

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