No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.

We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.

To find people who don't want anything is rare.

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.

Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.

The two are not mutually exclusive, but we think we can have wealth without good ideas and without values and without a clear vision. Wealth without vision is insanity.