We've talked more about civil rights after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than we talked about it before 1964.

The Constitution contains no 'dignity' Clause, and even if it did, the government would be incapable of bestowing dignity. ... Slaves did not lose their dignity (any more than they lost their humanity) because the government allowed them to be enslaved. Those held in internment camps did not lose their dignity because the government confined them. And those denied governmental benefits certainly do not lose their dignity because the government denies them those benefits.

I don't really have the luxury to be bitter. I don't have the luxury of having negative things in my life.

And I thank God I believe in God, or I would probably be enormously angry right now.

Any discrimination, like sharp turns in a road, becomes critical because of the tremendous speed at which we are traveling into the high-tech world of a service economy.

The only people who have quick answers don't have the responsibility of making the decisions.

It really bugs me that someone will tell me, after I spent 20 years being educated, how I'm supposed to think.