It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.

I really do believe in the New Jerusalem. I really do believe that we can all become better than we are. I know we can. But the price is enormous and people are not yet willing to pay it.

Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

To ask questions of the universe, and then learn to live with those questions, is the way he achieves his own identity.

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

Everything now, we must assume, is in our hands; we have no right to assume otherwise. If we do not falter in our duty now, we may be able, handful that we are, to end the racial nightmare, and achieve our country, and change the history of the world.