In life it isn't what you've lost, it's what you've got left that counts

There are those who say to you - we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late.

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.

What do we want for people? Human dignity, personal expression and fulfillment, justice, freedom.

Slumism is the pent-up anger of people living on the outside of affluence. Slumism is decay of structure and deterioration of the human spirit. Slumism is a virus which spreads through the body politic. As other "isms," it breeds disorder and demagoguery and hate.

The road to freedom, here and everywhere, begins in the classroom.

I do not feel that we should allow a shortage of funds to prevent cities from financing needed projects.