There is something wrong with our world, something fundamentally and basically wrong.

All too many of those who live in affluent America ignore those who exist in poor America; in doing so, the affluent Americans will eventually have to face themselves with the question that Eichman chose to ignore: How responsible am I for the well-being of my fellows?

The recent statement of your executive committee are the sentiments of my own heart and I found myself in full accord when I read its opening lines: "A time comes when silence is betrayal." That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam. Some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak. We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak.

There is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us.

You cannot defect form an insight. You cannot unsee what you have seen.

One of these days I'm going to put my body where my mind is.

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