I do not feel that we should allow a shortage of funds to prevent cities from financing needed projects.

Profit and morality are a hard combination to beat.

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

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?

We should have learnt by now that laws and court decisions can only point the way. They can establish criteria of right and wrong. And they can provide a basis for rooting out the evils of bigotry and racism. But they cannot wipe away centuries of oppression and injustice - however much we might desire it.

It is better to gain a foot than to stand still, even when you seek to gain a mile.

If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger.