I was a Georgia state legislator for a great many years

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.

Black reporters are as capable of racism as anyone else.

People see America through particular lenses, either their profession, their race or their gender. So the party that speaks to our racial perceptions and offers solutions to the racial difficulties which we face is the party that's going to be rewarded with our votes.

The Republican Party would have the American flag and the swastika flying side by side.

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

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.