You might get rid of the Bishop and get to the local Ku Klux Klan leader. That, on the whole, has been the fate of certain types of Protestantism. They get under the control of a White Citizens Council while the Catholic Church has an authoritarian system, yes, in which the Bishop expresses the conscience of the whole Christian community and they say there are some things that you can't do on this matter.

The individual or the group which organizes any society, however social its intentions or pretensions, arrogates an inordinate portion of social privilege to itself.

There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.

Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.

Change what cannot be accepted and accept what cannot be changed.

There must be equality of all men before God and in a democratic society. Now that's one of the great achievements.

What is funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously.