In some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.

The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress. Out of its bold struggles, economic and social reform gave birth to unemployment insurance, old age pensions, government relief for the destitute, and, above all, new wage levels that meant not mere survival but a tolerable life.

There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we have the resources to get rid of it.

The time is always right to do what is right.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

[People] don't see that there's a great deal of a difference between nonresistance to evil and nonviolent resistance.

My soul is too glad and too great to be at heart the enemy of any man