Our children lost our direction because they have been compromised. They have found freedom at the ballot box, and then they have taken on plastic chains around their minds and souls and mortgage their future on credit cards. They have to learn better - they have to learn the value of ideas and health as opposed to wealth.

I think we've made tremendous progress on racism. We've even made progress on war. We've made almost no progress on poverty.

The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.

Once the Xerox copier was invented, private diplomacy died. There's no such thing as secrecy. It's just a question of whether it's leaked or revealed openly.

My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.

If I wanted to develop a scenario to destroy America, I would do what the Republicans are doing. Take the brightest and best young black men off the streets, put them in jail, make them meaner than hell for 8 or 10 years and then turn them lose in a society where there are plenty of guns for them to play with.

Beauty and love are all my dream; They change not with the changing day; Love stays forever like a stream That flows but never flows away.