If we are going to achieve a real equality, the U.S. will have to adopt a modified form of Socialism.

It is not a sign of weakness, but a sign of high maturity, to rise to the level of self-criticism.

Certainly I'm not saying that you sit down and patiently accept injustice. I'm talking about a very strong force, where you stand up with all your might against an evil system, and you are not a coward.

Love is the only creative, redemptive, transforming power, in the universe.

So when Jesus says "Love your enemies," he is setting forth a profound and ultimately inescapable admonition.

And violence is impractical, because the old eye for an eye philosophy ends up leaving everybody blind .. It is immoral because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for everybody. Means and ends are inseparable. The means represent the ideal in the making; in the long run of history destructive means cannot bring about constructive ends.

When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir.