There is nothing like a fixed, steady aim, with an honorable purpose. It dignifies your nature, and insures your success.

No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

The Good News borne by our risen Messiah who chose not one race, who chose not one country, who chose not one language, who chose not one tribe, who chose all of humankind!

Abject poverty is demeaning, is an assault on the dignity of those that suffer it. In the end it demeans us all. It makes the freedom of all of us less meaningful.

I would like it to be said: here lies a man who has done his duty on earth

I am influenced more than ever before by the conviction that social equality is the only basis of human happiness.

I could not imagine that the future I was walking toward could compare in any way to the past that I was leaving behind.