My entire life has been devoted to breaking down barriers, to finding common ground.

I spent many years working for voting rights, but we still see sophisticated efforts, led by white officials, to disenfranchise black voters in local and national elections.

You can't say the negro left the Republican party; the negro feels he was evicted from the Republican party.

My entire life has been devoted to breaking down barriers, to finding common ground.

Once bitten, you seldom lose the political bug.

Politics is not a tea party. When it is time to act, you have to move fast and decisively.

In elective politics, it's up or out. You go up the ladder, or you get out of the game.