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.

Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.

I've always seen the Olympics as a place where you could act out your differences on the athletic field with a sense of sportsmanship and fairness and mutual respect.

I think we've made tremendous progress on racism. We've even made progress on war. We've made almost no progress on poverty.

My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.

I've been dyslexic and had Attention Deficit Disorder at some time in my life. I still read with a highlighter, but I've always loved to read.