We know of no more crucial civil rights issue facing Congress today than the need to increase the federal minimum wage and extend its coverage.

We have guided missiles and misguided men.

So when Jesus says "Love your enemies," he is setting forth a profound and ultimately inescapable admonition.

For you will never be what you ought to be until they [your fellow humans] are what they ought to be.

Often the oppressor goes along unaware of the evil involved in his oppression so long as the oppressed accepts it.

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.

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.