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.

Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got

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

If I wanted to develop a scenario to destroy America, I would do what the Republicans are doing. Take the brightest and best young black men off the streets, put them in jail, make them meaner than hell for 8 or 10 years and then turn them lose in a society where there are plenty of guns for them to play with.

Both the brightness and the spectrum of the X-rays are very different from what theory predicts.

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

He [Martin Luther King Jr.] always used to say you have no choice about being born or dying. The only thing you have a choice about is what you die for.