"I cannot be an optimist but I am a prisoner of hope."
"Empathy is not simply a matter of trying to imagine what others are going through, but having the will to muster enough courage to do something about it. In a way, empathy is predicated upon hope."
“A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open, honest dialogue.”
"I have tried to be a man of letters in love with ideas in order to be a wiser and more loving person, hoping to leave the world just a little better than I found it."
"You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people if you don't serve the people."
"Music at its best...is the grand archeology into and transfiguration of our guttural cry, the great human effort to grasp in time our deepest passions and yearnings as prisoners of time. Profound music leads us--beyond language--to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence. "
(civil rights activist, professor of Princeton University)
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