Until racial justice and freedom is a reality in this land, our union will remain profoundly imperfect.
Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
Democracy is necessitated by the fact that all men are sinners; it is made possible by the fact that we know it.
America is a flawed land but a great one indeed.
Our society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you.
Certainly the determining acts of her life were not ideally beautiful. They were the mixed result of young and novel impulse struggling amidst the conditions of an imperfect social state, in which great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
We're not perfect, but we do have democracy.
All imperfections are forced upon the imperfect, so the 'perfect' can live content and oblivious.
Art is a criticism of society and life, and I believe that if life became perfect, art would be meaningless and cease to exist.
We're living in a time when people are struggling to appear perfect.
Art is born out of an ill-designed world.
Average human nature is very coarse, and its ideals must necessarily be average. The world never loved perfect poise. What the world does love is commonly absence of poise, for it has to be amused.
If you look at the Kennedys, if you look at Bill Clinton, I think our country has decided or learned that we are all flawed, that we all have imperfections, and if all of that were revealed about each one of us, we would all be tainted.
Complete and total perfection will come about only when we feel that our perfection is no perfections as long as the rest of humanity remains imperfect.
