We in the West must bear in mind that the poor countries are poor primarily because we have exploited them through political or economic colonialism.

There is within human nature an amazing potential for goodness.

Civilization and violence are antithetical concepts.

You can kill the dreamer, but you can't kill the dream.

The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.

Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve.

Many white Americans of good will have never connected bigotry with economic exploitation. They have deplored prejudice but tolerated or ignored economic injustice.