“four meta-movements that separately and together are redefining the American dream: living with limits, embracing diversity, looking inward, and demanding authenticity.”

“I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their separateness as Negroes, Jews, Italians or any other distinctions. This will be the day when we bring into full realization the American dream -- a dream yet unfulfilled.”

“At bottom, today's Democrats from Baucus to Waters are united in only two beliefs, and they demand that American citizens believe in only two things: diversity and rights.”

“Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.”

“Show me a god that does not demand mortal suffering.Show me a god that celebrates diversity, a celebration that embraces even non-believers, and is not threatened by them.Show me a god that understands the meaning of peace. In life, not in death.”

“Reality is infinitely diverse. It resists classification, inward life. Peculiar to us...not simply the official existence.”