I would define morality as enlightened self-interest...That old Platonic ideal that there are certain pure moral forms just isn't where we are.

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

There is a happy land, Far, far away, Where Saints in glory stand, Bright, bright as day.

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

I wouldn't listen to my parents, but I found out that I absorbed. I never heard what they said - told me - but I did what they did.

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

If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.