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.

Once the Xerox copier was invented, private diplomacy died. There's no such thing as secrecy. It's just a question of whether it's leaked or revealed openly.

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.

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

If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.

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.