If we get into the mind-set where the good becomes the enemy of the best, we will get nothing.

The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States.

The atmosphere in which social legislation is considered is not a friend of truth.

If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with good people.

We have the right to our own opinions, but not our own facts.

At the heart of the deterioration of the fabric of the Negro society is the deterioration of the Negro family.

So many of the new nations which were established as democracies after the second world war, during the decolonizing process, have now changed their system to state-socialism. Small elites run them, and they aren't sharing societies. They aren't even socialist. The power of the state has been merged with business property and you have the greatest concentration of power that's possible.