No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.

The law cannot save those who deny it but neither can the law serve any who do not use it. The history of injustice and inequality is a history of disuse of the law.

There is no Constitutional issue here. The command of the Constitution is plain. There is no moral issue. It is wrong - deadly wrong - to deny any of your fellow Americans the right to vote in this country. There is no issue of States' rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.

Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone's achievement.

Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do.