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.

Nonviolence is the most potent technique for oppressed people. Unearned suffering is redemptive.

A law is unjust if it is inflicted on a minority that, as a result of being denied the right to vote, had no part in enacting or devising the law. Who can say that the legislature of Alabama which set up the state's segregation laws was democratically elected?

Perhaps the worst sin in life is knowing right and not doing it.

We must shift the arms race into a 'peace race'.

One day the absurdity of the almost universal human belief in the slavery of other animals will be palpable. We shall then have discovered our souls and become worthier of sharing this planet with them.

We must have our freedom now. We must have the right to vote. We must have equal protection of the law.