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.

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.

Obama is to the Tea Party as the moon is to werewolves.

You know, I come from six generations of college graduates.

I don't think of myself as a Negro. I'm a Southerner. I just like the Southern way of life.