Truth requires a maximum effort to see through the eyes of strangers, foreigners, and enemies.

Martin Luther King was a leader for all Americans on our own professed values.

And to me, that's why the civil rights era is about the future, not about the past, because it's great lessons of how citizens can organize to call on the patriotic heritage of the country to tackle some of our most intractable problems and we need to do that again.

Martin Luther King was never an up close and personal figure in the United States.

I think the colleges should be free to give athletes less than a full scholarship, no scholarship and more than a scholarship. And the athletes should be free to bargain.

There are an awful lot of people who despise government precisely because it opened the door for common citizenship for people of all races and all natures in the United States.

The history of American patriotism is figuring out ways that we can work together to move forward and knit together the common government.

History is the key to citizenship.