Why should there be hunger and deprivation in any land, in any city, at any table, when man has the resources and the scientific know-how to provide all mankind with the basic necessities of life? There is no deficit in human resources. The deficit is in human will.

Don't let anybody make you think that God chose America as his divine, messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.

Our children need our presence, not our presents.

The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific and religious freedom have always been nonconformists.

The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state. It must be the guide and the critic of the state, and never its tool. If the church does not recapture its prophetic zeal, it will become an irrelevant social club without moral or spiritual authority.

America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'

Israel... is one of the great outpost of democracy in the world