You can have no influence over those for whom you have underlying contempt.

[W]e are the heirs of a past of rope, fire, and murder. I for one am not ashamed of this past. My shame is for those who became so inhuman that they could inflict this torture upon us.

When any society says that I cannot marry a certain person, that society has cut off a segment of my freedom.

Is is always time to do the right thing.

I too am compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my particular hometown.

We must shift the arms race into a 'peace race'.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.