The labor movement was the principal force that transforme­d misery and despair into hope and progress.

I just want to leave a committed life behind.

We aren't going to have peace on Earth until we recognize the basic fact of the interrelated structure of all reality.

I cannot forget that the Nobel Prize for Peace was also a commission - a commission to work harder than I had ever worked before for "the brotherhood of man".

Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter - but beautiful - struggle for a new world.

Unless you have found something in life to live for that is more important to you than your own life, you will always be a slave. For all another man needs to do is threaten to take your life to get you to do his bidding.

We can walk through the darkest night with the radiant conviction that all things work together for the good.