The liberals have not softened their view of actuality to make themselves live closer to the dream, but instead sharpen their perceptions and fight to make the dream actuality.

laughter, that distinctively human emotion, laughter which springs from trust in the other, from willingness to put oneself momentarily in the other's place, even at one's own expense, is the special emotional basis of democratic procedures, just as pride is the emotion of an aristocracy, shame of a crowd that rules, and fear of a police state.

Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.

Somehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire knowledge of the past, and provide a sense of the future.

From a hundred cultures, [there is] one culture which does what no culture has ever done before-gives a place to every human gift.

Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.

Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.