True compassion is more than throwing a coin to a beggar. It demands of our humanity that if we live in a society that produces beggars, we are morally commanded to restructure that society.

Israel... is one of the great outpost of democracy in the world

Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in.

My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure.

The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act. It is a permanent attitude. That which I was not but could have been. That which I would have done but did not do. Can I find the fortitude to remember in truth,to understand, to submit, to forgive and to be free to move on in time?

There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.