When we have a narrative in mind, we often plug in anecdotes that confirm it.

moral voices can also become sanctimonious bullies.

America’s education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next.

My take is that the optimal approach to food, for health and ethical reasons, may be vegetarianism.

The Golden Temple, Sikhism's holiest shrine, is in northwestern India near the Pakistani border, and it is a delightful place to contemplate the draw of faith.

The best escalator to opportunity in America is education.

A basic element of the American dream is equal access to education as the lubricant of social and economic mobility.

Being true to our beliefs—even when doing so isn’t popular, easy, or fun—keeps us safely on the path that leads to eternal life with our Heavenly Father.

A black...gets a job with a white-owned company. He is the only black at the firm. He works hard, but he's fighting a losing battle against his genes.

And wilt thou sing the shadowy hosts that never march again?

Biblically speaking, to hear and not to do is not to hear at all.

I don't have time, because I still have so many films to see.

Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.

Home for me is wherever my wife and kid are.

I never cease to wonder at the amazing presumption of much of white society, assuming that they have the right to bargain with the Negro for his freedom.

Love can not be much younger than the lust for murder.

He was a martyr of peace but was the victim of hate. If people can't let go of the hatred of their enemies they risk sowing the seeds of hate among themselves.