Pastoral Resources

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

For me it came from the material. It was so well written and brought the opportunity to work with great actors. And of course the opportunity to 'mince about' was an added element that I wanted to take advantage of!

Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.

During the election, I had three male opponents and we went into a runoff. The front runner for the men was a native of Dallas who had run at large before, but I had a higher profile than him from my community service.

Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative.

The current administration has made the decision to cut dollars going for community development block grants, for various incentives to bring cities back.

I think the federal government really should be supporting Louisiana and ensuring that every person from that area has an opportunity to vote on what will occur in the area.

Before my grandpa built his own church, we went to the neighboring town, and it was a white community. You know, up north, mostly middle European people and Indians, Chippewa Indians. We were welcome to that church, but once we got in, they didn't know what to do with us.

There should be a moral principle there that says, let's green the ghetto first. Let's go to those communities where they have the least ability to pay for that retrofit and make sure they get that help, make sure they get that support. And give the young people standing on those corners the opportunity to put down those handguns and pick up some caulking guns and be a part of the solution.

We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done.

There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American people to form a national community. This we must do as individuals and if we do it as individuals, there is no President of the United States who can veto that decision.

We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community.

I have confidence that we can form this kind of national community.

Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny.

Don't get too comfortable with who you are at any given time - you may miss the opportunity to become who you want to be.

I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.