I was a Georgia state legislator for a great many years

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

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.

Good things don't come to those who wait. They come to those who agitate!

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

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.

Marriage is a civil right. If you don't want gay people to marry in your church, good for you. But you can't say they can't marry in your city.