Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups are more immoral than individuals.

Whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity and it has worth.

The Curse of poverty has no justification in our age...The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.

unearned suffering is redemptive.

The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.

A social movement that only moves people is merely a revolt. A movement that changes both people and institutions is a revolution.

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.