And when one person taps out a beat, while another leads into the melody, or when three people discover a harmony they never knew existed, or a crowd joins in on a chorus as though to raise the ceiling a few feet higher, then they also know there is hope for the world.

Technology will save us if it doesn't wipe us out first.

One of the things I'm most proud of about my country is the fact that we did lick McCarthyism back in the fifties.

The world will be solved by millions of small things.

It was only through the years that I realized what an absolutely extraordinarily thoughtful person Dr. King was.

The first country conquered by any dictator is his own country.

But I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have sung them.