If the road to social transformation can be paved only by saints who never make mistakes, the road will NEVER be built.

We should not allow the fundamentalists and the bigots to take over and speak for the great faiths any more than we should let them take over and speak for the great nation.

The usual pattern of demagogues is to promise the moon, fail to deliver, and then blame vulnerable others for those failures.

A one-sided analysis of anything always leads you into the wrong direction.

God chooses community sometimes to bear an unfair burden to force us to rise to the next level of consciousness and understanding.

I'm not asking for more entitlement programs; I'm asking for more enterprise.

I have many sources of inspiration. I'd have to point to Dr. Martin Luther King, first and foremost. But my parents were good, hardworking folks who kept us in the church and the public schools, and out of trouble, for the most part.