The reason I can't follow the old eye-for-an-eye philosophy is that it ends up leaving everyone blind.

While the question of who killed President Kennedy is important, the question 'what killed him' is more important.

Too often an institution serves to bless the majority opinion. Today when too many move to the rhythmic beat of the status quo, whoever would be a Christian must be a nonconformist.

Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.

The contemporary tendency in our society is to base our distribution on scarcity, which has vanished, and to compress our abundance into the overfed mouths of the middle and upper classes until they gag with superfluity. If democracy is to have breadth of meaning, it is necessary to adjust this inequity. It is not only moral, but it is also intelligent. We are wasting and degrading human life by clinging to archaic thinking.

The idea of a superior or inferior race is a myth that has been completely refuted by anthropological evidence.