"Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds. I have always kept an open mind, a flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of the intelligent search for truth."

"You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it."

"America preaches integration and practices segregation."

"There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time."

"I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave."

"Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands."

"When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored."

"No one leaves a long-term relationship scot-free or without conflict."