Normal is a cycle on a washing machine.
What we have in the United States is not so much a health-care system as a disease-care system.
No one who works for a living should live in poverty.
The Constitution does not just protect those whose views we share; it also protects those with whose views we disagree.
I hope for an America where the power of faith will always burn brightly, but where no modern inquisition of any kind will ever light the fires of fear, coercion, or angry division.
The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.
Historians will come to their own judgments about President Kennedy. Here is how I choose to remember him. He was an heir to wealth who felt the anguish of the poor. He was an orator of excellence who spoke for the voiceless. He was a son of Harvard who reached out to the sons and daughters of Appalachia. He was a man of special grace who had a special care for the retarded and handicapped. He was a hero of war who fought hardest for peace. He said and proved in word and deed that one man can make a difference.
Love tames the benumbed beast. A man is put to use regarding a woman's physical safety, but a woman is put to use regarding a man's mental safety.
She was startled. "But you're human, aren't you?" In some ways yes. But in other ways I'm a stranger to your kind. I have a friend who calls you plucked angels, and he claims you're a total waste of spirit. Do you ever think like that?" Of course, in honest moments. But I can be just as honest and think that we aren't a spiritual waste but a spiritual potential waiting to grow.
There comes a time when you roll up your sleeves and put yourself at the top of your commitment list.
People are generally proud of their food. A willingness to eat and drink with people without fear and prejudice. . . they open up to you in ways that somebody visiting who is driven by a story may not get.