I could never adjust to the separate waiting rooms, separate eating places, separate rest rooms, partly because the separate was always unequal, and partly because the very idea of separation did something to my sense of dignity and self-respect.

You can have no influence over those for whom you have underlying contempt.

There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.

Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children.

I have condemned any organizer of war, regardless of his rank or nationality.

The body is God's temple, but we are to worship God, not the temple.

Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right?