Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable . . .

It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence. That is where we are today.

We have no honorable intentions in Vietnam. Our minimal expectation is to occupy it as an American colony and maintain social stability for our investments. This tells why American helicopters are being used against guerrillas in Colombia and Peru. Increasingly the role our nation has taken is the role of those who refuse to give up the privileges and pleasures that come from the immense profits of overseas investment.

Agape is something of the understanding, creative, redemptive goodwill for all men. It is a love that seeks nothing in return. It is an overflowing love; it's what theologians would call the love of God working in the lives of men. And when you rise to love on this level, you begin to love men, not because they are likeable, but because God loves them.

[I] know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems.

I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but of practical realism.

There is something in the soul that cries out for freedom.