The gap between the rich and the poor is the most dangerous threat to world peace we have.

There can be no compromise on the right of personal security; there can be no compromise on securing of human rights.

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.

Our greatest songs are still unsung.

You can't hoot with the owls and then soar with the eagles

Our opposition will never understand the Democratic Party. Our Party is--to the unpracticed eyes of the old Republican Tories--a mysterious contraption that usually seems to be moving in a thousand directions. What they don't know is what hurts them. For all that movement in the Democratic Party is caused by the internal combustion of creative ferment, of ideas, of people vigorously committed to the proposition that change and social progress are not only to be desired; they are necessities of twentieth-century America.

The time has arrived in America for the Democratic Party to get out of the shadows of states rights and walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights