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

I refuse to accept the idea that the “isness” of man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the eternal “oughtness” that forever confronts him.

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

I said to my children, 'I'm going to work and do everything that I can do to see that you get a good education. I don't ever want you to forget that there are millions of God's children who will not and cannot get a good education, and I don't want you feeling that you are better than they are. For you will never be what you ought to be until they are what they ought to be.

Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.

Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. ... We are perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its indigenous population. Moreover, we elevated that tragic experience into a noble crusade. Indeed, even today we have not permitted ourselves to reject or to feel remorse for this shameful episode.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.