I can retain neither respect nor affection for government which has been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend its immorality

London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome! With eager thirst, by folly or by fate, Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state.

The best and only safe road to honor, glory, and true dignity is justice.

I hope I shall never see the day when the Force of Right is deprived of the Right of Force.

It has been said of the world's history hitherto that might makes right. It is for us and for our time to reverse the maxim, and to say that right makes might.

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

Was not Abraham Lincoln an extremist? - "This nation cannot survive half slave and half free."

We must come to see with the distinguished jurist of yesterday that "justice too long delayed is justice denied."

To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right.

The contemporary church is so often a weak, ineffectual voice with an uncertain sound. It is so often the arch supporter of the status quo.

the time is always right to do the right thing

Will we act, or will we sit on our hands? I don't want to show up on that day only to hear God say, "This nation—where is My church? There's still too much sin, too much covenant with Baal, too much pornography, too much perversion, too much materialism, greed, pride, and arrogance. They have missed their hour of grace; only judgment awaits.