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.

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.

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

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

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

Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got

I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.