For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future.

If all I get is a little controversy for speaking the truth, if I did less, I would not be worth living.

More and more I find I'm really impressed with how much my son knows and how much he thinks like me. But he never would agree with me and he never would listen to me on anything.

Martin Luther King was talking about racism, war and poverty. I think we have made progress enormous progress in racism and war, but we have made little or no progress in poverty. And it's because the economy has gotten more and more complex as we have globalized.

No nation as rich as ours should have so many people isolated on islands of poverty in such a sea of material wealth.

Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.

President Jimmy Carter was a citizen soldier. Ironically, he was considered weak because he didn't kill anybody and he didn't get anyone killed.