There has to be a certain amount of love just in order for you to survive together. I think a lot of groups have gone down the tubes because they were not able to relate to one another.

All of us are subject to being passive to the social ills around us. It's a struggle not to become, by staying silent, an accomplice.

We’ve learned that it will take more than one generation to bring about change. The fight for civil rights has developed into a broader concern for human rights, and that encompasses a great many people and countries. Those of us who live in a democracy have a responsibility to be the voice for those whose voices are stilled.

It is one thing to read about the world, but quite another to see and hear for oneself.

I was raised to believe that everybody has a responsibility to their community.

When the fad changed from folk to rock, they didn't take along any good writers.

We’ve always been involved with issues that deal with the fundamental human rights of people, whether that means the right to political freedom or the right to breathe air that’s clean.