When blacks are unemployed, they are considered lazy and apathetic. When whites are unemployed, it's considered a depression.

We have to judge politicians by their cumulative score. In one innings they make a great catch, in another they drop the ball. In one they score a home run, in another they strike out. But it is their cumulative batting average that we are interested in.

When they wrote the Constitution, only white male landowners had the right to vote.

Capitalism without capital is just an ism.

The crown jewel of Dr. King`s movement was to protect the right to vote for all citizens.

You must never stop dreaming. Face reality, yes. But don't stop with the way things are; dream of things as they ought to be. Dream of peace. Peace is rational and reasonable. War is irrational in this age and unwinnable.

Iraq will drive American agenda for a long time because Iraq policy has so damaged America in the Middle East region, left us isolated. We are there now by brute strength, we are not there because we are desired.