“Lincoln had a tremendous capacity for personal growth - more than any ...” — Henry Louis Gates Quote

Lincoln had a tremendous capacity for personal growth - more than any other American President.

In America there is institutional racism that we all inherit and participate in, like breathing the air in this room - and we have to become sensitive to it.

For as long as I can remember, I have been passionately intrigued by 'Africa,' by the word itself, by its flora and fauna, its topographical diversity and grandeur; but above all else, by the sheer variety of the colors of its people, from tan and sepia to jet and ebony.

I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere when I was a very little boy, and my father told me that when he was a boy about my age, he wanted to be an Episcopal priest, because he so admired his priest, a black man from someplace called Haiti.

Modern sport can be an ugly convergence of commerce and celebrity, but it still has the capacity to move a crowd.

A nation has the capacity to choose its own capital city, and Jerusalem is Israel's capital.

I've found that eliminating not-so-important choices really frees up my mental capacity to think about the important ones.

No country in the post-colonial era has thrived without first building its capacity to conduct scientific research.

In the underdeveloped countries, we have young men and women, many of them of capacity but without opportunity to improve themselves. They cannot do so without help.