Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can't ride your back unless it is bent

I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits.

The reason I can't follow the old eye-for-an-eye philosophy is that it ends up leaving everyone blind.

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

The strong man is the man who can stand up for his rights and not hit back.

In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law . . That would lead to anarchy.

We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was “legal” and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was “illegal.” It was “illegal” to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler’s Germany. Even so, I am sure that, had I lived in Germany at the time, I would have aided and comforted my Jewish brothers. If todayI lived in a Communist country where certain principles dear to the Christian faith are suppressed, I would openly advocate disobeying that country's antireligious laws.