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.

A constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages is a form of gay bashing and it would do nothing at all to protect traditional marriages.

The more visible signs of protest are gone, but I think there is a realization that the tactics of the late sixties are not sufficient to meet the challenges of the seventies.

Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.

Behind every good man, there's a good woman reminding you I knew you when you didn't have nothing.

The greatest violence is seeing a child go to bed hungry.

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