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

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

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.

It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.

Some kind of affirmative action is important in a democracy and for economic competitiveness and national security. The Army was the first to realize that you had to have desegregation of a military to have it working properly.

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

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