We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.

The church must be reminded that it is not the master, or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state.

Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.

True sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

I oppose the war in Vietnam because I love America. I speak out against it not in anger but with anxiety and sorrow in my heart, and above all with a passionate desire to see our beloved country stand as a moral example of the world.