Power at its best is love implementing the demand of justice.

We have moved into an era where we are called upon to raise certain basic questions about the whole society. We are still called upon to give aid to the beggar who finds himself in misery and agony on life's highway. But one day, we must ask the question of whether an edifice which produces beggars must not be restructured and refurbished.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die

I am indebted to my wife Coretta, without whose love, sacrifices, and loyalty neither life nor work would bring fulfillment. She has given me words of consolation when I needed them and a well-ordered home where #Christian love is a reality.

Racial segregation must be seen for what it is, and that is an evil system, a new form of slavery covered up with certain niceties of complexity.

Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.