The leadership for civil rights has to take place in the White House or it is going to take place in the streets.

Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.

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

To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.

We live by hope. We do not ever get all we want when we want it. But we have to believe that someday, somehow, some way, it will be better and that we can make it so.

I am absolutely disgusted that anyone would put thousands of America's boys at risk just to win a Political Campaign.

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