Everybody is determined by his own experience.

Some kind of affirmative action is important in a democracy and for economic competitiveness and national security. The Army was the first to realize that you had to have desegregation of a military to have it working properly.

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

Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.

Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.

Having personally watched the Voting Rights Act being signed into law that August day, I can't begin to imagine how we could have all been so wrong in believing that more Americans would vote once they were all truly free to do so.

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.