When Blacks Got The Right To Vote,

When I Was A Boy We Were Poor And We Had To Make Do With What We Had. So My Grandma Used To Make Us Quits That We Used For Blankets. She Couldn't Afford To Go To The Store And Buy A Blanket -- So She'd Take Scraps Of Cloth And Sew Them Together. There'd Be Different Colors And Different Patterns And Different Types Of Cloth -- But They All Went Together To Make That Big Quilt To Keep Us Warm.

Humanitarian Appeals Always Help. They Penetrate Deeper Than Political Tradeoffs.

The Fact Is In A City Like Chicago, For Example, Unemployment In The Black Community Is Around 20 Percent For Adults, 35 Percent For Youth, They Bail Out The Banks, Public Schools, There Is A Deep Divide. We Need A Plan For Reconstruction And Redevelopment And I Hope That - Police Are The Gatekeepers But Behind That Gate Are These Problems Of Disparities And Injustice.

The Us Must Be The Honest Broker Between The Israelis And The Palestinians. America Needs To Be To Both Of Them What Neither Could Be To The Other: A Trusted Brokering Partner. It Is In Their Interest And Our Interest For America To Play That Role.

If You And I Got On An Airplane, You're Going To L.a., Los Angeles, And I'm Going To Senegal, We Get There About The Same Time. The World Is Just That Small. So A World That Is So Tightly Bound By Science And Technology And Now Internet And The Web Page, That World Is Too Small For Bullies. It Has No Room In That World For Arrogance.