This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.

We must substitute courage for caution.

the universe is under the control of a loving purpose, and that in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic companionship (angels). Behind the harsh appearance of the world there is a benign power.

As a young man with most of my life ahead of me, I decided early to give my life to something eternal and absolute. Not to these little gods that are here today and gone tomorrow. But to God who is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

It may be true that the law cannot change the heart but it can restrain the heartless.

If you haven't found something worth dying for, you're not fit to live.

A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past when the ravages persist into the present. America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay.