Returning hate, adding deeper darkness to a night that is already void of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

The recent statement of your executive committee are the sentiments of my own heart and I found myself in full accord when I read its opening lines: "A time comes when silence is betrayal." That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam. Some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak. We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak.

Let us be those creative dissenters who will call our beloved nation to a higher destiny. To a new plateau of compassion, to a more noble expression of humanness.

But life at its best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony.

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'

History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.

When people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory.