Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.

World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor - it requires only that they live together with mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement.

One hundred years of delay have passed since President Lincoln freed the slaves, yet their heirs, their grandsons, are not fully free. They are not yet freed from the bonds of injustice. They are not yet freed from social and economic oppression. And this nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free.

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.

Our nation is founded on the principal that observance of the law is the eternal safeguard of liberty and defiance of the law is the surest road to tyranny.

Life in freedom is not easy, and democracy is not perfect.