Differences in race, differences in sex, somebody doesn’t look at you right, somebody says something. Everybody is sensitive. If I had been as sensitive as that in the 1960s, I’d still be in Savannah.

When I was a kid, we said that we were precluded from going to certain neighborhoods because of the color of our skin Now the neighborhoods are the neighborhoods of ideas, youre not supposed to be there because of the color of your skin.

To define each of us by our race is nothing short of a denial of our humanity.

The truth of the matter is we have become more interested in designer jeans and break dancing than we are in obligations and responsibilities.

I agree with the (Supreme Court's) holding that racial discrimination in higher education admissions will be illegal in 25 years. They are illegal now.

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

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