When we look at modern man, we have to face the fact...that modern man suffers from a kind of poverty of the spirit, which stands in glaring contrast to his scientific and technological abundance; We've learned to fly the air like birds, we've learned to swim the seas like fish, and yet we haven't learned to walk the Earth as brothers and sisters.

Freedom has always been an expensive thing. History is fit testimony to the fact that freedom is rarely gained without sacrifice and self-denial.

I guess one of the great agonies of life is that we are constantly trying to finish that which is unfinishable

Alienation is a form of living death. It is the acid of despair that dissolves society.

The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.

We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for the victims of our nation and for those it calls enemy, for no document from human hands can make these humans any less our brothers and sisters.

This is the unusual thing about nonviolence -- nobody is defeated, everybody shares in the victory.