In every age and every generation, men have envisioned a promised land. Some may have envisioned it with the wrong ideology, with the wrong philosophical presupposition. But men in every generation thought in terms of some promised land.

It is appalling that the most segregated hour of Christian America is eleven o'clock on Sunday morning.

Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

Darkness is only driven out with light, not more darkness.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

The spirit of Lincoln still lives; that spirit born of the teachings of the Nazarene, who promised mercy to the merciful, who lifted the lowly, strengthened the weak, ate with publicans, and made the captives free. In the light of this divine example, the doctrines of demagogues shiver in their chaff.