Whenever racial discrimination exists it is a tragic expression of man's spiritual degeneracy and moral bankruptcy. Therefore, it must be removed not merely because it is diplomatically expedient, but because it is morally compelling.

Now it is time for us to move on to that great and noble realm of justice and brotherhood. That is the great struggle taking place in our nation today. It isn't a struggle just based on a lot of noise; it is a struggle to save the soul of our nation.

Racial injustice is a cancer in the body politic which must be removed before our moral health can be realized.

The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them.

Conscription is the vitality of a nation, the purification of its morality, and the real foundations of all its habits.

Your love of liberty - your respect for the laws - your habits of industry - and your practice of the moral and religious obligations, are the strongest claims to national and individual happiness.