Historically we have rejected extremism on the left and the right. Centrism is the right course for America.

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

America is the only country in the world that classifies as Negro any person who has one drop of African blood in his or her veins.

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

I deplored a system that made it more profitable not to work than to work. I wanted to help change all that.

Labels applied to people of any race are inherently offensive.

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.