Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly. . . in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.
Politics is not a tea party. When it is time to act, you have to move fast and decisively.
My parents taught me that racial prejudice is a sin, one that robs the world of great minds and talents.
When people treat corruption as a routine part of the process, you have something far worse than wrongdoing or moral failing. You have a political cancer that breeds cynicism about democratic government and infects all of society.
My entire life has been devoted to breaking down barriers, to finding common ground.
Election victories are a harvest. You plant the seed. For months or years, you water and tend them. In the election season, you reap the harvest.
I spent many years working for voting rights, but we still see sophisticated efforts, led by white officials, to disenfranchise black voters in local and national elections.
I'm projecting somewhere between 100 million and 200 million computers on the Net by the end of December 2000, and about 300 million users by that same time.
Every artist wants some sort of feedback, because you make this music and you hope people love it and you want to hear if they love it and what they love about it, what their favorite song is, what they think the next single should be. I like to hear those things.
Sam: For once in my life, I was here and nowhere else.
We should have to abandon our vested illusions, our irrational religions and patriotisms.