All Americans owe a debt of gratitude to Dr. King for his bravery and commitment to civil rights and nonviolence that changed this nation - and world - for the better.

On the eve of World War I, an estimated two million Armenians lived in the Ottoman Empire. Well over a million were deported and hundreds of thousands were simply killed.

Too small is our world to allow discrimination, bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it, let alone in the United States of America.

The freedom of thought and expression is one of the most sacred rights in this country.

I believe that ultimately the situation in Kosovo can only be resolved through self-determination.

Adult stem cells are also problematic, as they are difficult to identify, purify and grow, and simply may not exist for certain diseased tissues that need to be replaced.

It is my hope that as we commemorate Black History Month in the future, we will continue to celebrate the many achievements and rich culture of African-Americans.

While Haiti has recently celebrated more than 200 years of independence from French colonial rule, the citizens of the island remain vulnerable to poverty, poor health, and political chaos.

I do not think we should be trying to save our freedom by killing the safeguards that keep our liberties.

Yet, nearly 6 decades after the Holocaust concluded, Anti-Semitism still exists as the scourge of the world.

I wholeheartedly support umbilical stem cell research, but also support embryonic stem cell research.

Living for your purpose is equivalent to living for the Kingdom of God

If you do politics the right way, I believe, you can actually make people's lives better. And integrity is the minimum ante to get into the game.

Always plan no matter how improbable it seems. . The bill for hindsight is much more expensive than the reciept for foresight.

To meet everything and everyone through stillness instead of mental noise is the greatest gift you can offer the universe.

We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves

You can't blame someone for not knowing what his or her job should be if you don't ask for it right off the bat.

The way you become divine is to become wholly human

Non-co-operation and civil disobedience are but different branches of the same tree called satyagraha.

The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives.

When you've been around a snake long enough, you learn how to crawl in the dirt.