Young
Young
baseball player college
My daddy was determined to make me a dentist and a baseball player. And I loved my daddy but I wasted four years of college trying to do what he wanted me to do, and not what I felt I wanted to do.
dream children land
I always quoted to my parents from Kahlil Gibran, "The Prophet." Your children are not your children. They come through you, but not from you. You can give them your love, but not your thoughts, for they come from a land that you cannot enter, not even in your wildest dreams.
war america slavery
What we forget is that African Americans made the largest contribution to America, economically, before the Civil War of any sector of society. I read that the railroads were worth about $2 billion, but slavery was a $3 billion asset.
school kids college
When people ask where I studied to be an ambassador, I say my neighborhood and my school. I've tried to tell my kids that you don't wait until you're in high school or college to start dealing with problems of people being different. The younger you start, the better.
gay giving mind
Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for more.
white america justice
We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk.
thinking white black
No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.
passports
I had to get a second passport in a hurry.
intelligent people moral
In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.
sports democratization commercialization
The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.
brightness rays different
Both the brightness and the spectrum of the X-rays are very different from what theory predicts.
people roles ambassadors
There is a sense in which the United States ambassador speaks to the United States, as well as for the United States. I have always seen my role as a thermostat rather than a thermometer. So I'm going to be actively working... for my own concerns. I have always had people advise me on what to say, but never on what not to say.
military army important
Some kind of affirmative action is important in a democracy and for economic competitiveness and national security. The Army was the first to realize that you had to have desegregation of a military to have it working properly.
rights movement lessons
There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.