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

My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring.

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

I think the inconveniences of a segregated education are much greater than the inconveniences of busing students so that they can get an integrated quality education.

We were all involved in the death of John Kennedy. We tolerated hate; we tolerated the sick stimulation of violence in all walks of life; and we tolerated the differential application of law, which said that a man's life was sacred only if we agreed with his views.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

I've seen too much hate to want to hate, myself.