History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.

You're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem.

We shall have our manhood. We shall have it or the earth will be leveled by our attempts to gain it.

I have lived those lines and I know that if I had not been apprehended I would have slit some white throats.

With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.

Too much agreement kills a chat.

There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness.