I've appeared on a weekly syndicated television show since 1980

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.

You could not be in the civil rights movement without having an appreciation for everybody's rights. That these rights are not divisible - not something men have and women don't and so on.

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.

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

The First Amendment means everything to me.