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

It is all too easy for a society to measure itself against some abstract philosophical principle or political slogan. But in the end, there must remain the question: What kind of life is one society providing to the people that live in it?

Never give up on anybody.

It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.

In the minds and hearts of the American people, there is a great hunger for peace based on a universal recognition of the values of freedom and human dignity.

Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true.

When the dignity of one person is denied, all of us are denied.