I was never enthusiastic about being somebody who was supposed to be silent about being a member of something.

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.

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

I think the world is going to be saved by millions of small things.

The real meaning of courage was the personal sacrifice of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King.

We have more freedom of the press than any other country in a similar position. Even way back in the frightened '50s, Communists, for example, could publish their magazine. The KKK published their own books. But face it, the mass media is controlled by money.

You have a right to your opinion and I've got a right to mine. Period.