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

Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true.

My friends, to those who say that we are rushing this issue of civil rights, I say to them we are 172 years late. To those who say that this civil-rights program is an infringement on states’ rights, I say this: The time has arrived in America for the Democratic Party to get out of the shadow of states' rights and to walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights.

Profit and morality are a hard combination to beat.

Equality means equality for all - no exceptions, no 'yes, buts', no asterisked footnotes imposing limits.

We should have learnt by now that laws and court decisions can only point the way. They can establish criteria of right and wrong. And they can provide a basis for rooting out the evils of bigotry and racism. But they cannot wipe away centuries of oppression and injustice - however much we might desire it.

Never give up on anybody.