Personalism's insistence that only personality-finite and infinite-is ultimately real strengthened me in two convictions: it gave me metaphysical and philosophical grounding for the idea of a personal God, and it gave me a metaphysical basis for the dignity and worth of all human personality.

Our age is one of guided missiles and unguided men.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable . . .

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

We have a great dream. It started way back in 1776, and God grant that America will be true to her dream.

You can't talk about solving the economic problem of the Negro without talking about billions of dollars. You can't talk about ending the slums without first saying profit must be taken out of the slums. You're really tampering and getting on dangerous ground because you are messing with folk then. You are messing with captains of industry. Now this means that we are treading in difficult water, because it really means that we are saying that something is wrong with capitalism.