A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.

No nation can rise to its full moral maturity so long as it subjects a segment of its citizenry on the basis of race or color.

There is something strangely inconsistent about a nation and a press that would praise you when you say, "Be nonviolent toward Jim Clark," but will curse and damn you when you say, "Be nonviolent toward little brown Vietnamese children." There is something wrong with that press.

President Johnson rightly praised the courage of the Negro for awakening the conscience of the nation.

History is a great teacher. Now everyone knows that the labor movement did not diminish the strength of the nation but enlarged it.

If America is to remain a first-class nation, it cannot have second-class citizens.