The member of Congress who forgets his constituents' needs usually serves only one term.

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.

Labels applied to people of any race are inherently offensive.

My parents taught me that racial prejudice is a sin, one that robs the world of great minds and talents.

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.

When people treat corruption as a routine part of the process, you have something far worse than wrongdoing or moral failing. You have a political cancer that breeds cynicism about democratic government and infects all of society.

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