God made the world from nothing, and if we can be nothing, then God can make something of us.

But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.

A time comes when silence is betrayal. Even when pressed by the demands of inner truth, men do not easily assume the task of opposing their government's policy, especially in time of war. Nor does the human spirit move without great difficulty against all the apathy of conformist thought, within one's own bosom and in the surrounding world.

It may be true that the law cannot change the heart but it can restrain the heartless.

Courage faces fear and thereby masters it

Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children.

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.