I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world - or to make it the last.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

To know and not to do is not yet to know.

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed.

"No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means"

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.