Unlike mainstream civil rights groups, which merely sought integration of blacks into the existing order, SNCC sought structural changes in American society itself.

You know, I come from six generations of college graduates.

You could not be in the civil rights movement without having an appreciation for everybody's rights. That these rights are not divisible - not something men have and women don't and so on.

Ever since I've become chairman, there have been profiles of me in People, George, The Washington Post, The Detroit News, and all of them could have been written by the same person

I don't think of myself as a Negro. I'm a Southerner. I just like the Southern way of life.

You must place interest in principle above interest on principal.

Many are attracted to social service - the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we have social justice, we won't need social service.