It is better to gain a foot than to stand still, even when you seek to gain a mile.

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.

In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.

I've never thought my speeches were too long; I've rather enjoyed them.

Our greatest songs are still unsung.

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

It is all too easy for a society to measure itself against some abstract philosophical principle or political slogan. But in the end, there must remain the question: What kind of life is one society providing to the people that live in it?