A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right.

We must use time creatively.

Will we be extremists for hate, or will we be extremists for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice, or will we be extremists for the cause of justice?

The curse of poverty has no justification in our age.

History is a great teacher. Now everyone knows that the labor movement did not diminish the strength of the nation but enlarged it. By raising the living standards of millions, labor miraculously created a market for industry and lifted the whole nation to undreamed of levels of production. Those who attack labor forget these simple truths, but history remembers them.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live.