Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

In the final analysis, means and ends must cohere because the end is preexistent in the means, and, ultimately, destructive means cannot bring about constructive ends.

When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir.

Babies, we are told, are the latest news from heaven.

These are the times for real choices and not false ones. We are at the moment when our lives must be placed on the line if our nation is to survive its own folly. Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest.