“We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.”

“I wish I could say that racism and prejudice were only distant memories. We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the mistrust…We must dissent because America can do better, because America has no choice but to do better.”

“All I can think is that when you torment a person...the soul dies. When the soul dies, I suppose mercy dies, too.”

“We can't have any weak or silly. Life is real again, and the useless and cumbersome and mischievous have to die. They ought to die. They ought to be willing to die. It's a sort of disloyalty, after all, to live and taint the race.”

“Do you know what I think Mayflowers are, Marilla? I think they must be the souls of the flowers that died last summer, and this is their heaven.”

“May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion. ”