As an African American child growing up in the segregated South, I was told, one way or another, almost every day of my life, that I wasn't as good as a white child.

How many must die before we can really have a free and true and peaceful society?

If sexual relations between consenting adults are not part of the right to privacy guaranteed by the Constitution, then American democracy is in trouble.

Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become.

Women, in general, are not part of the corruption of the past, so they can give a new kind of leadership, a new image for mankind.

Because Dr. King was human and not divine - although we think he was divine, he was just a man, an extraordinary man, but a man - and he would get depressed from time to time and disappointed about all kinds of things relative to the movement.

It doesn't matter how strong your opinions are. If you don't use your power for positive change, you are, indeed, part of the problem.