If all you can do is judge a person by their appearance, because you don't have the spirit to judge someone from within, you're in trouble.

[A politician is] a person skilled in the art of compromise. Usually an elected official who has compromised to get nominated, compromised to get elected, and compromised repeatedly to stay in office.

In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don't know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country.

Pets are found to suffer from all the ailments known to the human.

Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bills. Not to be confused with human rights, which are the dignity, stature, humanity, respect, and freedom belonging to all people by right of their birth.

Fear and God do not occupy the same space.

In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.