Love even for enemies is the key to the solution of the problems of our world.

Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children.

Only in the darkness can you see the stars.

[People] don't see that there's a great deal of a difference between nonresistance to evil and nonviolent resistance.

President Lyndon Johnson's high spirits were marked as he circulated among the many guests whom he had invited to witness an event he confidently felt to be historic, the signing of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.... The bill that lay on the polished mahogany desk was born in violence in Selma, Alabama, where a stubborn sheriff... had stumbled against the future.

Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups are more immoral than individuals.

We must have the faith that things will work out somehow, that God will make a way for us when there seems no way.