I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia

We know that if whites and nonwhites vote in the same percentages as they did in 2000, Bush will be re-defeated by 3 million votes.

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.

Griffin Bell later apologized to me for that decision.

I tell young people to prepare themselves as best they can for a world that grows more challenging every day-get the best education they can, and couple that education with real-life experience in social justice work.

You must place interest in principle above interest on principal.