Segregation is evil; there is no pattern of life which can dehumanize men as can the way of segregation.

Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.

The question in crisis or ordeal is not: Are you going to be an extremist? The question is: What kind of extremist are you going to be?

Belief in Some One's right to punish you is the fate of all children in Judaic-Christian culture. But nowhere else, perhaps, have the rich seed-beds of Western homes found such a growing climate for guilt as is produced in the South by the combination of a warm moist evangelism and racial segregation.

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.

To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.