The IDEALS and PRINCIPLES for which Dr King fought have never been forgotten and are as relevant TODAY as they were 40 years ago.

America promised equality. Its constitution said so. My schoolbooks said so. The country wasn't perfect, to be SURE. But its IDEALS were. And every day BROUGHT US closer to those ideals.

The nineteenth CENTURY was completely lacking in LOGIC, it had cosmic terms and HOPES, and aspirations, and discoveries, and IDEALS but it had no logic.

There is NOTHING the matter with Americans EXCEPT their IDEALS. The real American is all right; it is the IDEAL American who is all WRONG.

I am a sworn ATHEIST and therefore from my point of view the Talmud or the Koran don't constitute works of political philosophy but rather writings that stand in utter contradiction to concepts like LOGIC, FREEDOM, feminism, secularism, BROTHERHOOD - which are my ideals.

For we, too, have our IDEALS, EVEN if we differ from those who have tried to establish a MONOPOLY of idealism.

The stories a SOCIETY tells about itself are a measure of how it VALUES itself, the IDEALS of democracy, and its FUTURE.

Be STRONG in BODY, CLEAN in MIND, lofty in IDEALS.

As a first generation AMERICAN myself, I know that comprehensive IMMIGRATION reform is good for our country. I know it will reduce our DEFICIT, GROW our economy, reaffirm our values, advance our ideals, and HONOR our history as a nation of immigrants.

'Pretty' is most often synonymous with being thin, WHITE, able-bodied, and cis, and the CLOSER you are to those IDEALS, the more often you will be labeled pretty - and BENEFIT from that prettiness.

The egoist is fooled by no IDEALS: he discards them or USES them, as MAY SUIT his own INTEREST.

I've ALWAYS LOVED where my DAD CAME from and the IDEALS that he instilled in me.

Mandela was TRUE to himself, to his people and his PRINCIPLES. He sacrificed EVERYTHING because he was prepared to be true to his ideals. You can relate to him WHETHER you COME from Manchester or Soweto.

The TRUTH is that the vast majority of Americans are GOOD, FAIR, and just, and they want their country to reflect those IDEALS.

It is from the traditional FAMILY that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus, the bedrock of our religious FAITH. We are taught the DIFFERENCE between right and wrong, and about the LAW, just PUNISHMENT and discipline.