Louis Armstrong, who learned to be in exquisite dress, came from the bottom, and he's not a trash can.

Getting to the pint where the other is not the enemy is a big leap.

All of us are made up of the stories that we listen to, the ones we disagree with and the ones that we agree with.

What we need in America is a renaissance. We need to go forward by going backward.

Our democratic richness arrives when we're able to comprehend our collective humanity accurately.

The point is, you have an ethnic heritage and you have a human heritage. Your human heritage includes everything of human value.

The high point of civilization is that you can hate me and I can hate you but we develop an etiquette that allows us to deal with each other because if we acted solely upon our impulse we'd probably go to war.