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

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.

As skills and energy became more of a demand, people who didn't have skills just got left behind, got shuttled to the side. Education didn't keep up with their promise. Education didn't prepare them for this new world. Jobs went overseas.

There is no coloration to rights. Everybody has rights. I don't care who you are, where you come from. You got rights. I got rights. All God's children got rights.

You must place interest in principle above interest on principal.

Black reporters are as capable of racism as anyone else.

Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.