We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society.

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'

Commit yourself to the noble struggle for human rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country and a finer world to live in.

The strong man is the man who can stand up for his rights and not hit back.

Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. ... We are perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its indigenous population. Moreover, we elevated that tragic experience into a noble crusade. Indeed, even today we have not permitted ourselves to reject or to feel remorse for this shameful episode.

My parents would always tell me that I should not hate the white man, but that it was my duty as a Christian to love him.

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.