Until racial justice and freedom is a reality in this land, our union will remain profoundly imperfect.

What do we want for people? Human dignity, personal expression and fulfillment, justice, freedom.

To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.

There is a great deal of difference between living and surviving. You can survive in debauchery, even in sickness and despair. But you live with a spirit of vitality and a spirit of participation, of being wanted, and having something to contribute.

You can't hoot with the owls and then soar with the eagles

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

What we need are critical lovers of America - patriots who express their faith in their country by working to improve it.