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.

Slavery didnt break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.

Nobody Black had learned anything from the `Letter from the Birmingham Jail' or from the `I Have a Dream' speech. That was a revelation of white people.

I was raised that way: don't get mad, get smart.

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

Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.

If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.