One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying.

In our society, it is psychological murder to deprive a man of a job...you are in substance saying to that man "You have no right to exist.

A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.

If you haven't found something worth dying for, you're not fit to live.

We must use time creatively.

I have DECIDED to love. If you are seeking the highest good, I think you can find it through love. GOD is love.

President Lyndon Johnson's high spirits were marked as he circulated among the many guests whom he had invited to witness an event he confidently felt to be historic, the signing of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.... The bill that lay on the polished mahogany desk was born in violence in Selma, Alabama, where a stubborn sheriff... had stumbled against the future.