Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.

The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents.

Nobody Black had learned anything from the `Letter from the Birmingham Jail' or from the `I Have a Dream' speech. That was a revelation of white people.

What we forget is that African Americans made the largest contribution to America, economically, before the Civil War of any sector of society. I read that the railroads were worth about $2 billion, but slavery was a $3 billion asset.

If I wanted to develop a scenario to destroy America, I would do what the Republicans are doing. Take the brightest and best young black men off the streets, put them in jail, make them meaner than hell for 8 or 10 years and then turn them lose in a society where there are plenty of guns for them to play with.

My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.

Beauty and love are all my dream; They change not with the changing day; Love stays forever like a stream That flows but never flows away.