In Those Rare Moments, When

In A Funny Way, Poems Are Suited To Modern Life. They're Short, They're Intense. Nobody Has Time To Read A 700-page Book. People Read Magazines, And A Poem Takes Less Time Than An Article.

I Think One Of My Father's Great Legacies Is The People That He Inspired And The Generation That He Inspired Transformed America Through Civil Rights, Women's Rights, Equal Justice, And They've Passed That On To Their Children And Grandchildren.

Sometimes It Takes A While To Recognize That Someone Has A Special Ability To Get Us To Believe In Ourselves, To Tie That Belief To Our Highest Ideals And Imagine That Together We Can Do Great Things. In Those Rare Moments, When Such A Person Comes Along, We Need To Put Aside Our Plans And Reach For What We Know Is Possible.

Now Is The Time To Move This Country Forward.

People Don't Always Realize That My Parents Shared A Sense Of Intellectual Curiosity And A Love Of Reading And Of History.