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

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

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.

Working in a situation with men and women, and seeing women take on roles equal to the roles taken by men made you understand that, "Hey, these people can do things too." And I think it made me and other people in the movement realize that we're living in a community of equals. And that among those equals, they have equal rights. And we ought to respect their rights if they respected ours.

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

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

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.