A free and open society is an ongoing conflict, interrupted periodically by compromises.

We must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful new world. We will see it when we believe it.

America's corporations are a spiritual slum, and their arrogance is the major threat to our future as a free society.

The standards of judgment must be rooted in the whys and wherefores of life as it is lived, the world as it is, not our wished-for fantasy of the world as it should be.

In the beginning the organizer's first job is to create the issues or problems.

The classic statement on polarization comes from Christ: 'He that is not with me is against me.' (Luke 11:23) He allowed no middle ground to the moneychangers in the Temple. One acts decisively only in the conviction that all the angels are on one side and all the devils on the other.

Action comes from keeping the heat on. No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough.