Everybody is determined by his own experience.

The man with courage is a majority.

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

Bill [Clinton] is every bit as black as Barack. He's probably gone with more black women than Barack.

Some kind of affirmative action is important in a democracy and for economic competitiveness and national security. The Army was the first to realize that you had to have desegregation of a military to have it working properly.

Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for more.

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.