There may be a conflict between softminded religionists and toughminded scientists, but not between science and religion.

I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" - one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

Black Power alone is no more insurance against social injustice than white power.

One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying.

Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential. Social action without education is a weak expression of pure energy. Deeds uninformed by educated thought can take false directions. When we go into action and confront our adversaries, we must be as armed with knowledge as they. Our policies should have the strength of deep analysis beneath them to be able to challenge the clever sophistries of our opponents.

When any society says that I cannot marry a certain person, that society has cut off a segment of my freedom.

... the right to defend one's home and one's person when attacked has been guaranteed through the ages by common law.