Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children.

I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him.

How hard it is for people to live without someone to look down upon-really to look down upon. It is not just that they feel cheated out of someone to hate. It is that they are compelled to look more closely into themselves and what they don't like about themselves.

When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind.

I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. There comes a time when silence becomes betrayal.

Every man [human being] is an heir to a legacy of dignity and worth

We aren't going to have peace on Earth until we recognize the basic fact of the interrelated structure of all reality.