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

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.

When people ask where I studied to be an ambassador, I say my neighborhood and my school. I've tried to tell my kids that you don't wait until you're in high school or college to start dealing with problems of people being different. The younger you start, the better.

Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.

Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

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

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.