The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.

Hate destroys the very structure of the personality of the hater.

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

God made the world from nothing, and if we can be nothing, then God can make something of us.

I came to the conclusion that there is an existential moment in your life when you must decide to speak for yourself; nobody else can speak for you.

I could never adjust to the separate waiting rooms, separate eating places, separate rest rooms, partly because the separate was always unequal, and partly because the very idea of separation did something to my sense of dignity and self-respect.

Evil must be attacked by. . . the day to day assault of the battering rams of justice.