Black and Jewish leaders have been a coalition of conscience.

What we have to be judged by is the work we try to do. It's public service, not perfect service.

How can you have in our country that is based upon liberality and liberation, be so anti-liberal. That's toxic waste to our consciousness. It's hard to be an American conservative because that's a contradiction in terms. Now if you take away freedom of speech, freedom of press, freedom of protest, and lock people out based upon their race, their language and their religion, that's conservative and fascist. America is a liberal idea.

Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.

Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.

When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.

I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.