Without God, all of our efforts turn to ashes and our sunrise into the darkest of nights.

There is nothing more dangerous than to build a society with a large segment of people in that society who feel that they have no stake in it; who feel that that have nothing to lose. People who have stake in their society, protect that society, but when they don't have it, they unconsciously want to destroy it.

We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for the victims of our nation and for those it calls enemy, for no document from human hands can make these humans any less our brothers and sisters.

My uncertainty disappeared. Segregation is evil, and I cannot, as a minister, condone evil.

Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right?

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

Had it not been for the ministry of my good friend Dr. Billy Graham, my work in the civil rights movement would not have been as successful as it has been.