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

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity.

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

I think if we, say, if all of the major leaders in this struggle [for human's rights] were at, at war with each other, then I think it would be very difficult to make this social revolution the kind of powerful revolution that it's proved to be.

The contemporary church is so often a weak, ineffectual voice with an uncertain sound. It is so often the arch supporter of the status quo.

Justice is love correcting that which revolts against love.

[E]very human life is a reflection of divinity, and... every act of injustice mars and defaces the image of God in man.