Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence.

I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy.

The young very seldom lead anything in our country today. It's been quite some time since a younger generation pushed an older one to a higher standard.

My daddy expected that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He had lived in an America of continual social progress.

The first time I ever played the trumpet in public, I played the Marine Hymn. I sounded terrible.

My daddy thought - no, he expected - that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He was correct in his belief because he had lived in an America of continual social progress, depression followed by prosperity, segregation by integration, and so on.