I like my life. I've had a good life. I think the reason is my parents taught me that life is a burden. But if you take it one day at a time, it's an easy burden.

Everybody is determined by his own experience.

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

No nation as rich as ours should have so many people isolated on islands of poverty in such a sea of material wealth.

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.

There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.

I like my life. I've had a good life. I think the reason is my parents taught me that life is a burden. But if you take it one day at a time, it's an easy burden.