Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together.

He [Martin Luther King Jr.] always used to say you have no choice about being born or dying. The only thing you have a choice about is what you die for.

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

Both the brightness and the spectrum of the X-rays are very different from what theory predicts.

The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.

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.

I've always seen the Olympics as a place where you could act out your differences on the athletic field with a sense of sportsmanship and fairness and mutual respect.