The real problem is that through our scientific genius we’ve made of the world a neighborhood, but through our moral and spiritual genius we’ve failed to make of it a brotherhood.

We have no honorable intentions in Vietnam. Our minimal expectation is to occupy it as an American colony and maintain social stability for our investments. This tells why American helicopters are being used against guerrillas in Colombia and Peru. Increasingly the role our nation has taken is the role of those who refuse to give up the privileges and pleasures that come from the immense profits of overseas investment.

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

What good does it do to sit at the counter when you cannot afford a hamburger?

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

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.

If a city has a 30% Negro population, then it is logical to assume that Negroes should have at least 30% of the jobs in any particular company, and jobs in all categories rather than only in menial areas.