The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.

Too often we honor swagger and bluster and the wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others.

Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.

Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America's water pollution.

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary and there are people in distress.

But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?

The natural state of a human being is dignity.