I wouldn't listen to my parents, but I found out that I absorbed. I never heard what they said - told me - but I did what they did.

Having personally watched the Voting Rights Act being signed into law that August day, I can't begin to imagine how we could have all been so wrong in believing that more Americans would vote once they were all truly free to do so.

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

If all I get is a little controversy for speaking the truth, if I did less, I would not be worth living.

I have committed my life to helping the poor, and I believe that if more companies followed Wal-Mart's lead in providing opportunity and savings to those who need it most, more Americans battling poverty would realize the American dream.

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

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