Science investigates, religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power, religion gives man wisdom which is control. Science deals mainly with facts, religion deals with values. The two are not rivals. They are complementary.

Every crisis has both its dangers and its opportunities. Each can spell either salvation or doom.

Our generation will not have regretted both perverse crimes, and the eerie silence of the kind

Just as it is the duty of all men to obey just laws, so it is the duty of all men to disobey unjust laws.

In the current struggle, there is one positive course of action. There is no alternative, for the alternative would connote a rear march.

A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law, or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law.

I said to my children, 'I'm going to work and do everything that I can do to see that you get a good education. I don't ever want you to forget that there are millions of God's children who will not and cannot get a good education, and I don't want you feeling that you are better than they are. For you will never be what you ought to be until they are what they ought to be.