It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.

I think we've made tremendous progress on racism. We've even made progress on war. We've made almost no progress on poverty.

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 would define morality as enlightened self-interest...That old Platonic ideal that there are certain pure moral forms just isn't where we are.

Bill [Clinton] is every bit as black as Barack. He's probably gone with more black women than Barack.

No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.

He [Martin Luther King Jr.] always used to say you have no choice about being born or dying. The only thing you have a choice about is what you die for.