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

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.

Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.

Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.

I tried. But not everybody thought so.

Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of every eligible voter.

We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk.