Are we more concerned with the size, power, and wealth of our society or with creating a more just society? The failure to pursue justice is not only a moral default. Without it social tensions will grow and the turbulence in the streets will persist despite disapproval or repressive action.

Now that the mistake of the past has been made, I think that the opportunity of the future is to really go out and to transform American society, and where else is there a better place than in the institution that should serve as the moral guardian of the community.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

Society is a sort of organism on the growth of which conscious efforts can exercise little effect.

We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.

Thus shall we live, because we will have created a society which recognises that all people are born equal, with each entitled in equal measure to life, liberty, prosperity, human rights and good governance.