We must have the faith that things will work out somehow, that God will make a way for us when there seems no way.

It may be true that the law cannot change the heart but it can restrain the heartless.

When people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory.

It is not a sign of weakness, but a sign of high maturity, to rise to the level of self-criticism.

I was not afraid of the words of the violent, but of the silence of the honest.

There is nothing but a lack of social vision to prevent us from paying an adequate wage to every American citizen whether he be a hospital worker, laundry worker, maid or day laborer

If America does not use her vast resources of wealth to end poverty and make it possible for all of God's children to have the basic necessities of life, she too will go to hell.