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

Martin Luther King was talking about racism, war and poverty. I think we have made progress enormous progress in racism and war, but we have made little or no progress in poverty. And it's because the economy has gotten more and more complex as we have globalized.

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

On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.

The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.

My daddy was determined to make me a dentist and a baseball player. And I loved my daddy but I wasted four years of college trying to do what he wanted me to do, and not what I felt I wanted to do.

Nobody Black had learned anything from the `Letter from the Birmingham Jail' or from the `I Have a Dream' speech. That was a revelation of white people.