The Law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich, as well as the poor, to sleep under the bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. It's a wonder a nation of this size and wealth even has a problem at all. Take a walk in someone else's shoes. Sir, the poor are outside protesting your budget cuts. I am not an Athenian or a Greek, I am a citizen of the world.
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
Somewhere out in this audience there may be someone who will be the spouse of a future President of the United States. I wish him well. Since the earliest days the church as an organization has thrown itself violently against every effort to liberate the body and mind of man. It has been, at all times and everywhere, the habitual and incorrigible defender of bad governments, bad laws, bad social theories, bad institutions. It was, for centuries, an apologist for slavery, as it was the apologist for the divine right of kings.