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

I tried. But not everybody thought so.

For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future.

Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.

I believe in humanitarian capitalism, and there are good people on Wall Street.

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

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.