I think perhaps education doesn’t do us much good unless it is mixed with sweat.

We are not at war with Islam. We are at war with people who have perverted Islam.

We consume about 25 percent of the world's oil. We only have 2 percent of the reserves.

No one in the United States of America should ever be targeted because of who they are, what they look like, or how they worship.

I have seen, the desperation and disorder of the powerless: how it twists the lives of children on the streets of Jakarta or Nairobi in much the same way as it does the lives of children on Chicago 's South Side.

Nothing is more powerful than the black church experience. A good choir and a good sermon in the black church, it's pretty hard not to be move and be transported.

We cannot help but believe that the old hatreds shall someday pass; that the lines of tribe shall soon dissolve; that as the world grows smaller, our common humanity shall reveal itself.