“If the society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority.”

“The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.”

“If you're going to play the game properly you'd better know every rule.”

“Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.”

“Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.”

“There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure.”

“...the court, as now constituted, would be meaningless without the jail which gives it its power. But if there is anything I have learned by being in jail, it is that prisons are wrong, simply and unqualifiedly wrong.”