We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

Love is the most durable power in the world. This creative force is the most potent instrument available in mankind's quest for peace and security.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.

One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that ' an unjust law is no law at all.

And one day we must ask the question, "Why are there forty million poor people in America?" And when you begin to ask that question, you are raising questions about the economic system, about a broader distribution of wealth. When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic economy.

There is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us.