Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.

The leadership for civil rights has to take place in the White House or it is going to take place in the streets.

Profit and morality are a hard combination to beat.

We should have learnt by now that laws and court decisions can only point the way. They can establish criteria of right and wrong. And they can provide a basis for rooting out the evils of bigotry and racism. But they cannot wipe away centuries of oppression and injustice - however much we might desire it.

Here we are the way politics ought to be in America; the politics of happiness, the politics of purpose and the politics of joy.

Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.