The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.

What are you doing for others?

When I am commanded to love, I am commanded to restore community, to resist injustice, and to meet the needs of my brothers.

But life at its best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony.

Everyone has the power for greatness, not for fame but greatness, because greatness is determined by service.

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable . . .

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