The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.

In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfilment of the best qualities of your own spirit.

I think there is an obligation on the part of all of us to stay informed and aware.

The road toward equality of freedom is not easy, and great cost and danger march alongside us. We are committed to peaceful and nonviolent change, and that is important for all to understand - though all change is unsettling. Still, even in the turbulence of protest and struggle is greater hope for the future, as men learn to claim and achieve for themselves the rights formerly petitioned from others.

There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?

Our future may lie beyond our vision, but it is not completely beyond our control. It is the shaping impulse of America that neither fate nor nature nor the irresistible tides of history, but the work of our own hands, matched to reason and principle, that will determine our destiny. There is pride in that, even arrogance, but there is also experience and truth. In any event, it is the only way we can live.

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.