All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

Be concerned about your brother...eithe r we go up together, or we go down together.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin.

Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.

A man who has nothing he is willing to die for has nothing worth living for

I said to my children, 'I'm going to work and do everything that I can do to see that you get a good education. I don't ever want you to forget that there are millions of God's children who will not and cannot get a good education, and I don't want you feeling that you are better than they are. For you will never be what you ought to be until they are what they ought to be.