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.

Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.

On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.

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

To find people who don't want anything is rare.

I was much more comfortable and a much better congressman running in a district that was 37 percent black, where I had to have a white constituency to get elected, than I would have been if I was in a 75 percent black district.

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