Bill's voice was part of a chorus of conscience for a nation dealing with issues of poverty, war, disarmament, racism and bigotry. He distinguished himself by rising above and emerging out of his own background of privilege to speak on behalf of the poor.


Rev. Frederick Streets

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The key to your universe is that you can choose.
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One and God make a majority.
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If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.
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FREDERICK DOUGLASS
To-day it appears as though it may well be altogether abolished in the future as it has to some exte...
FREDERICK SODDY
I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and th...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowl...
FREDERICK SANGER
A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a gre...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Hol...
FREDERICK BUECHNER
I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
There is not a man beneath the canopy of Heaven who does not know that slavery is wrong for him.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
A good scientist is a person in whom the childhood quality of perennial curiosity lingers on. Once h...
FREDERICK SEITZ
I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky-her grand old woods-her...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one clas...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery ...
FREDERICK BUECHNER
But when ye come, and all the flowers are dying,
If I am dead, as dead I well may be,
You'...
FREDERICK WEATHERLY
The pure air and dazzling snow belong to things beyond the reach of all personal feeling, almost bey...
FREDERICK SODDY
If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imag...
FREDERICK BUECHNER
Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.
FREDERICK WILCOX
We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now ...
FREDERICK TILNEY
The roads we take are more important than the goals we announce. Decisions determine destiny.
FREDERICK SPEAKMAN
There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is not to be true to the best we k...
FREDERICK FARRAR
Man’s power of choice enables him to think like an angel or a devil, a king or a slave. Whatever h...
FREDERICK BAILES
Remember Jesus of Nazareth, staggering on broken feet out of the tomb toward the Resurrection, beari...
FREDERICK BUECHNER
You have to edit the material. That assumes that some kind of a mind is operating in relation to the...
FREDERICK WISEMAN
The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst
FREDERICK BUECHNER
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any peop...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light; it heightens effect
FREDERICK SAUNDERS
In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs ...
FREDERICK BUECHNER
People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
Do you suffer your thoughts to tamper with evil; and to dally with wrong-doing? If so; you are not s...
FREDERICK FARRAR
Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud and one the stars.
FREDERICK LANGBRIDGE
No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever fail...
FREDERICK FARRAR
There'll be spring every year without you. England still will be here without you.

FREDERICK LOEWE
The time is ripe for looking back over the day, the week, the year, and trying to figure out where w...
FREDERICK BUECHNER
We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but ra...
FREDERICK KOENIG
Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They wash...
FREDERICK TENNYSON
When a man gets up to speak, people listen, then look. When a woman gets up, people look; then, if t...
PAULINE FREDERICK
When you remember me, it means that you have carried something of who I am with you, that I have lef...
FREDERICK BUECHNER
It goes back to the Greeks. Plato was an idealist, Aristotle was a materialist.
JENNIFER FREDERICK
Mammon is the largest slave-holder in the world
FREDERICK SAUNDERS
Through art and science in their broadest senses it is possible to make a permanent contribution tow...
FREDERICK SANGER
We cannot be certain right now how the events of last week will ultimately impact the U.S. and globa...
FREDERICK SMITH
I was so despondent, wondering what I am going to do, and then the minister herself called.
FREDERICK SMITH
Despite uncertainty related to Katrina and other economic conditions, we remain optimistic about glo...
FREDERICK SMITH
We're forecasting it will get better, but we'd like to see it get better faster,
FREDERICK SMITH