The president of the branch in Atlanta was a pastor of a church, the Reverend Sam Williams, a wonderful guy. He was middle-class and fairly militant for the time and place.

The humanity of all Americans is diminished when any group is denied rights granted to others.

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

You must place interest in principle above interest on principal.

The war in Iraq has as much to do with terrorism as the administration has to do with compassion.

I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia

I do think that some of us began to realize that this was going to be a long struggle that was going to go on for decades, and you'd have to knuckle down. A lot of people in our generation did that. They didn't drop out and run away