You have very little morally persuasive power with people who can feel your underlying contempt.

[I] know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems.

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.

There is within human nature an amazing potential for goodness.

The road to freedom is a difficult, hard road. It always makes for temporary setbacks.

The church must be reminded that it is not the master, or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state.

As the weeks and months unfolded, we realized that we were the victims of a broken promise.