The mass of men seldom move together without an emotional incentive.

In the unceasing ebb and flow of justice and oppression we must all dig channels as best we may, that at the propitious moment somewhat of the swelling tide may be conducted to the barren places of life.

Things that make us alike are finer and stronger than the things that make us different.

I believe that peace is not merely an absence of war but the nurture of human life, and that in time this nurture would do away with war as a natural process.

The task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels.

In a thousand voices singing the Hallelujah Chorus in Handel's "Messiah," it is possible to distinguish the leading voices, but the differences of training and cultivation between them and the voices in the chorus, are lost in the unity of purpose and in the fact that they are all human voices lifted by a high motive.

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.