The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn of civilization, when men ate each other because they had not yet learned to take food from the soil or to consume the abundant animal life around them. The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.

When we look at modern man, we have to face the fact...that modern man suffers from a kind of poverty of the spirit, which stands in glaring contrast to his scientific and technological abundance; We've learned to fly the air like birds, we've learned to swim the seas like fish, and yet we haven't learned to walk the Earth as brothers and sisters.

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

Your self-sacrificin g devotion to your purpose in life and your unwavering faith will carry you through times of difficulty.

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

With the tough mind, there must also be a tender heart.

"I criticize America because I love her. I want her to stand as a moral example to the world."