If Congress can regulate this under the Commerce Clause, then it can regulate virtually anything-and the Federal Government is no longer one of limited and enumerated powers.

The absolute worst I have ever been treated, the worst things that have been done to me, the worst things that have been said about me, are by northern liberal elites, not by the people of Savannah, Georgia.

Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.

I'd been very partial to Malcolm X, particularly his self-help teachings.

I think segregation is bad, I think it's wrong, it's immoral. I'd fight against it with every breath in my body, but you don't need to sit next to a white person to learn how to read and write. The NAACP needs to say that.

It takes a person with a mission to succeed.

You didn't think of angels as white or black. They were angels.