The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

The [next] priority for change the first element of a new politics for the United States is in our policy toward the world. Too much and for too long, we have acted as if our great military might and wealth could bring about an American solution to every world problem.

My views on birth control are somewhat distorted by the fact that I was seventh of nine children.

This much is clear: violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness from our soul.

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

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

For there is another kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions; indifference and inaction and slow decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. This is a slow destruction of a child by hunger, and schools without books and homes without heat in the winter.