In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.

A time comes when silence is betrayal.

Whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity and it has worth.

It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.

Personalism's insistence that only personality-finite and infinite-is ultimately real strengthened me in two convictions: it gave me metaphysical and philosophical grounding for the idea of a personal God, and it gave me a metaphysical basis for the dignity and worth of all human personality.

The poor never get the job done they are sleepy.

We can't slow up because of our love for democracy and our love for America. Someone should tell Faulkner that the vast majority of the people on this globe are colored.