Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

The whole world must see that Israel must exist and has the right to exist, and is one of the great outposts of democracy in the world.

Slaves do not always welcome their deliverers. They become accustomed to being slaves. They would rather gear those ills they have

We know nothing about Africa, although our roots are there in terms of our forbearers. But I mean as far as the average Negro today, he knows nothing about Africa. And I think he's got to face the fact that he is an American, his culture is basically American, and one becomes adjusted to this when he realizes what, what he is.

They asked if our own nation wasn't using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it wanted. Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today-my own government. For the sake of those boys, for the sake of this government, for the sake of hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent.

Our nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling power.