Well of course there's been a great deal of progress over the last 40 years. We don't have laws that segregate black people within the society any longer.
“You don't need to know who's playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president.”
“Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.”