All Of Us Might Wish At Times

Together, We Can Make Ourselves A Nation That Spends More On Books Than On Bombs, More On Hospitals Than The Terrible Tools Of War, More On Decent Houses Than Military Aircraft.

Men Without Hope, Resigned To Despair And Oppression, Do Not Make Revolutions. It Is When Expectation Replaces Submission, When Despair Is Touched With The Awareness Of Possibility, That The Forces Of Human Desire And The Passion For Justice Are Unloosed.

Too Often We Honor Swagger And Bluster And The Wielders Of Force; Too Often We Excuse Those Who Are Willing To Build Their Own Lives On The Shattered Dreams Of Others.

About One Month Before He Was Killed, When Asked By David Frost How His Obituary Should Read: Something About The Fact That I Made Some Contribution To Either My Country, Or Those Who Were Less Well Off. I Think Back To What Camus Wrote About The Fact That Perhaps This World Is A World In Which Children Suffer, But We Can Lessen The Number Of Suffering Children, And If You Do Not Do This, Then Who Will Do This? I'd Like To Feel That I'd Done Something To Lessen That Suffering.

Virginia States' Rights, As Our Forefathers Conceived It, Was A Protection Of The Right Of The Individual Citizen. Those Who Preach Most Frequently About States' Rights Today Are Not Those Seeking The Protection Of The Individual Citizen, But His Exploitation. The Time Is Long Past — If Indeed It Ever Existed — When We Should Permit The Noble Concept Of States' Rights To Be Betrayed.