Was not Jesus an extremist in love? - "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, pray for them that despitefully use you."

People are often led to causes and often become committed to great ideas through persons who personify those ideas. They have to find the embodiment of the idea in flesh and blood in order to commit themselves to it.

Worship is as natural to the human family as the sing of the sun is to the cosmic order.

One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change.

The bombs in Vietnam explode at home; they destroy the hopes and possibilities for a decent America.

Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups are more immoral than individuals.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.