Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.

An organization which claims to be working for the needs of a community - as SNCC does - must work to provide that community with a position of strength from which to make its voice heard. This is the significance of black power beyond the slogan.

Science never gives up searching for truth since it never claims to have achieved it.

Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon which was developed under various names as early as the eighteenth century without being clarified is what we shall have to deal with first of all.

The advent of a new religion making serious and impressive claims to embody a new revelation from on high is not a frequent occurrence.

How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer but art is very self-referential whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence.

Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents but grow out of the very essence of religion namely its absolute claims.

I say the law should be blind to race gender and sexual orientation just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind except for children the severely disabled and the elderly whose physical frailty demands society's care.

One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the window women are allowed in the house. The other claims that when money ebbs so do prospects for women.

King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.