We are called upon to help the discouraged beggars in life's marketplace. But one day we must come to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.

The contemporary tendency in our society is to base our distribution on scarcity, which has vanished, and to compress our abundance into the overfed mouths of the middle and upper classes until they gag with superfluity. If democracy is to have breadth of meaning, it is necessary to adjust this inequity. It is not only moral, but it is also intelligent. We are wasting and degrading human life by clinging to archaic thinking.

Evil must be attacked by. . . the day to day assault of the battering rams of justice.

It's not how long a man lives, but how well he uses the time allotted him.

Without love, benevolence becomes egotism.

You have very little morally persuasive power with people who can feel your underlying contempt.

We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.