Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform.

The challenge throughout has been to tell what I view as the truth about racism without causing disabling despair.

My wife says I spend my life trying to teach white folks. I'm not so sure I'm proud of it, but she's right.

All ethical people strive to choose "right" over "easy" when confronted by situations that force them to choose one or the other.

We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity, however gained.

Courage is a decision you make to act in a way that works through your own fear for the greater good as opposed to pure self-interest. Courage means putting at risk your immediate self-interest for what you believe is right.

Few whites are ready to actively promote civil rights for blacks.