It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.

Every nation must now develop an overriding loyalty to mankind as a whole in order to preserve the best in their individual societies.

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.

There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.

The whole world must see that Israel must exist and has the right to exist, and is one of the great outposts of democracy in the world.

For more than two centuries our foreparents labored here without wages; they made cotton king; and they built the homes of their masters in the midst of brutal injustice and shameful humiliation - and yet out of a bottomless vitality our people continue to thrive and develop.

A second thing that an individual must do in seeking to love his enemy is to discover the element of good in his enemy, and everytime you begin to hate that person and think of hating that person, realize that there is some good there and look at those good points which will over-balance the bad points.