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.

In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.

Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.

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.

There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.

I was much more comfortable and a much better congressman running in a district that was 37 percent black, where I had to have a white constituency to get elected, than I would have been if I was in a 75 percent black district.

Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.