I just want to leave a committed life behind.

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.

Without God, all of our efforts turn to ashes and our sunrise into the darkest of nights.

Without love, there is no reason to know anyone, for love will in the end connect us to our neighbors, our children and our hearts.

If the cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. Because the goal of America is freedom, abused and scorned tho' we may be, our destiny is tied up with America's destiny.

In this world is a God whose matchless strength is a fit contrast to the sordid weakness of man.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.