Violence is not only impractical but immoral.

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

No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.

History is a great teacher. Now everyone knows that the labor movement did not diminish the strength of the nation but enlarged it. By raising the living standards of millions, labor miraculously created a market for industry and lifted the whole nation to undreamed of levels of production. Those who attack labor forget these simple truths, but history remembers them.

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

We all have the drum major instinct. We all want to be important, to surpass others, to achieve distinction, to lead the parade.

The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind. It destroys communities and makes humanity impossible. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers... In winning our freedom, we will so appeal to you heart and conscience that we will win you in the process.