Pope Francis. He’s going with the original program. He may not be perfect, but he’s trying.

Mum and Dad – they've done a pretty good job raising us kids.

That's a hard one. All of the great writers whom I admire have died. I guess the most recent one would be Márquez.

My sporting hero, Muhammad Ali.

Jim Lawson. Jim Lawson was an unbelievable human being. Born in Ohio. He was a pacifist. He studied Gandhi. He was part of the Methodist Student Movement. He lived in India. He became an organizer for FOR, the Fellowship of Reconciliation.

I wanted to know. I asked a lot of questions and she would say, "Read, read."…So she inspired me a great deal.

On the Freedom Rides in the year 1961, when I was beaten at the Greyhound bus station in Montgomery, I thought I was going to die. On March 7, 1965, when I was hit in the head with a night stick by a state trooper at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, I thought I was going to die.

Participating in a transformative movement that advocated human dignity and changed America forever.

As a participant in the movement, as I was sitting in, I came to that point where I lost all sense of fear.

More than anything else, I had to combat the barriers, and we tore down those barriers. I just had to set a sail against the wind, those strong winds, to end segregation and racial discrimination, but somehow, in some way, I didn’t let those barriers keep me down.