The more I thought about human nature, the more I saw how our tragic inclination for sin/mistakes causes us to use our minds to rationalize our action.

The early Christians rejoiced when they were deemed worthy to suffer for what they believed. In those days the Church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles o popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

The Negro's problem will not be solved by running away.

To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.