The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest. That's all.

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.

Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up.

Great people aren't those who are happy at times of convienience and content, but of how they are in times of catastrophy and controversy.

Without love, there is no reason to know anyone, for love will in the end connect us to our neighbors, our children and our hearts.

History will have to recordThat the greatest tragedy of this period of social transitionWas not the vitriolic words and the violent actions of the bad peopleBut the appalling silence and indifference of the good.Our generation will have to repent notOnly for the words and actions of the children of darknessBut also for the fears and apathy of thechildren of light.

You cannot solve the problem by turning to communism, for communism is based on an ethical relativism and a metaphysical materialism that no Christian can accept.