The whole world must see that Israel must exist and has the right to exist, and is one of the great outposts of democracy in the world.

On some positions, cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? Conscience asks the question, is it right? There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right.

Violence is not only impractical but immoral.

You know, my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression.

Worship is as natural to the human family as the sing of the sun is to the cosmic order.

The softminded person always wants to freeze the moment and hold life in the gripping yoke of sameness.

The negro cannot win the respect of the white people of the south or the peoples of the world if he is willing to sell the future of his children for his personal and immediate comfort and safety.