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.

What we forget is that African Americans made the largest contribution to America, economically, before the Civil War of any sector of society. I read that the railroads were worth about $2 billion, but slavery was a $3 billion asset.

Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.

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

We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.

Any racial reconciliation we've had in this country has come not out of confrontation but out of a spirit of reconciliation. If we continue to practice an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we'll eventually end up with a land of people who are blind and toothless.

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