If the Senator can find in Title VII any language which provides that an employer will have to hire on the basis of percentage or quota related to color, race, religion, or national origin, I will start eating the pages one after another, because it is not in there.

More progress results from the violent execution of an imperfect plan than the perfection of a plan to violently execute.

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

What you do, what each of us does, has an effect on the country, the state, the nation, and the world.

Never give in and never give up.

For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.

Until racial justice and freedom is a reality in this land, our union will remain profoundly imperfect.