I was a Georgia state legislator for a great many years

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.

You must place interest in principle above interest on principal.

As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge.

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.

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

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.