The law of "An eye for an eye" will eventually leave everyone blind.

In order to be true to one's conscience and true to God, a righteous man has no alternative but to refuse to cooperate with an evil system.

When I took up the cross I recognized it's meaning. The cross is something that you bear, and ultimately, that you die on.

Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. ... We are perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its indigenous population. Moreover, we elevated that tragic experience into a noble crusade. Indeed, even today we have not permitted ourselves to reject or to feel remorse for this shameful episode.

To have serpentlike qualities devoid of dovelike qualities is to be passionless, mean, and selfish.

In his essay 'Self-Reliance' Emerson wrote, 'Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.' The Apostle Paul reminds us that whoso would be a Christian must also be a a nonconformist. Any Christian who blindly accepts the opinions of the majority and in fear and timidity follows a path of expediency and social approval is a mental and spiritual slave.

We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.