Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature of God.

Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.

We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.

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

Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.

We were all involved in the death of John Kennedy. We tolerated hate; we tolerated the sick stimulation of violence in all walks of life; and we tolerated the differential application of law, which said that a man's life was sacred only if we agreed with his views.