A religion true to its nature must also be concerned about man's social conditions....A ny religion that professes to be concerned with the souls of men and is not concerned with the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them, and the social conditions that cripple them is a dry-as-dust religion.

And you know, it's possible that the priest and the Levite looked over that man on the ground and wondered if the robbers were still around. Or it's possible that they felt that the man on the ground was merely faking. And he was acting like he had been robbed and hurt, in order to seize them over there, lure them there for quick and easy seizure. And so the first question that the Levite asked was, "If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?" But then the Good Samaritan came by. And he reversed the question: "If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.

There is no deficit in human resources; the deficit is in human will.

Though we live in the colony of time, we are ultimately responsible to the empire of eternity.

Will we march only to the music of time, or will we, risking criticism and abuse, march to the soul-saving music of eternity?

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