Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

God made the world from nothing, and if we can be nothing, then God can make something of us.

A riot is the language of the unheard. On blacks in America; address at Birmingham AL

You're as good as anybody.

The bombs in Vietnam explode at home; they destroy the hopes and possibilities for a decent America.

There is little hope for us until we become tough-minded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and downright ignorance. The shape of the world today does not permit us the luxury of soft mindedness. A nation or a civilization that continues to produce soft minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.

To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law.