The war in Iraq has as much to do with terrorism as the administration has to do with compassion.

There's this big debate that goes on in America about what rights are: Civil rights, human rights, what they are? it's an artificial debate. Because everybody has rights. Everybody has rights - I don't care who you are, what you do, where you come from, how you were born, what your race or creed or color is. You have rights. Everybody's got rights.

Ever since I've become chairman, there have been profiles of me in People, George, The Washington Post, The Detroit News, and all of them could have been written by the same person

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

Unlike mainstream civil rights groups, which merely sought integration of blacks into the existing order, SNCC sought structural changes in American society itself.

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