There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.

We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters.

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.

[W]e are the heirs of a past of rope, fire, and murder. I for one am not ashamed of this past. My shame is for those who became so inhuman that they could inflict this torture upon us.

There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force, but the destructive power of modern weapons eliminates even the possibility that war may serve as a negative good.

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.