The failures of the past must not be an excuse for the inaction of the present and the future.

If I hit you and you hit me and I hit you back and you hit me back and go on, you see, that goes on ad infinitum. It just never ends. Somewhere somebody must have a little sense, and that's the strong person.

We cannot be truly Christian people so long as we flaunt the central teachings of Jesus: brotherly love and the Golden Rule.

The ultimate solution to the race problem lies in the willingness of men to obey the unenforceable.

Nothing is so much needed as a secure family life for a people seeking to rise out of poverty and backwardness.

Let us be those creative dissenters who will call our beloved nation to a higher destiny. To a new plateau of compassion, to a more noble expression of humanness.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.