Where race is involved, there is a pronounced and proven tendency in the United States for the majority culture to willfully misremember the history and turn it upside down.

Martin Luther King was a leader for all Americans on our own professed values.

There's a natural tendency to sanitize and polish any historical icon whether it be George Washington chopping down the cherry tree or Martin Luther King saying, "I have a dream."

There are an awful lot of people who despise government precisely because it opened the door for common citizenship for people of all races and all natures in the United States.

Martin Luther King was never an up close and personal figure in the United States.

Truth requires a maximum effort to see through the eyes of strangers, foreigners, and enemies.

The history of American patriotism is figuring out ways that we can work together to move forward and knit together the common government.

History is the key to citizenship.

I think the colleges should be free to give athletes less than a full scholarship, no scholarship and more than a scholarship. And the athletes should be free to bargain.

You cant Realize Someone Good Is Coming Your Way, if still Remain Sleep on the Fact that they Actually Exist! Wake and smell the Coffee or Excuse yourself if your Nose is a bit Stuffy.

I had chosen freedom, with all its insecurities, and nothing in the world would make me turn away from it.

I will never forget the asymmetry of your eyes. it is transformative symmetry. it is the best symmetry. It is the symmetry that is beauty.

I think the country has had enough Bushes.

I was very happy being a secretary. I loved working for the government. I was very happy with my life.

Your life may have taken a detour, but God is still on the throne. He has brought you this far, and sooner or later, your peace will be restored.

God overrules all mutinous accidents, brings them under His laws of fate, and makes them all serviceable to His purpose.

You can't get rid of evil. We can't, and I feel that so intensely.

I hate to be a broken record - my parents have a lot to do with that too, because that's how they live their lives.

We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.