Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

A nation without a conscience is a nation without a soul. A nation without a soul is a nation that cannot live.

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.

I believe today that there is a need for all people of good will to come together with a massive act of conscience and say in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "We ain't goin' study war no more." This is the challenge facing modern man.

Our aim must never be to defeat or humiliate the white man, but to win his friendship and understanding. 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.

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