You (God) have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, on what we are to bestow our love.

The privileges of a few do not make common law.

Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in circumstances confronting him.

An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.

I am influenced at the present time by far higher considerations and by a nobler idea of duty than I ever was when I held the Evangelical belief.

We shouldn't have to be burdened with all the technicalities that come up from time to time with shrewd, smart lawyers interpreting what the laws or what the Constitution may or may not say.

Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.

I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!

It's time that we recognized that ours was in truth a noble cause.

From abolitionists, suffragettes, and civil rights activists here in America, to the international effort of the Allied forces during World War II and the team that rescued the boys in Thailand, the world has seen what happens when collective efforts dedicated to justice, peace, democracy, and love overcome forces that mitigate against them. History has shown what fear can do, but it has also shown us what love can do.