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.

The humanity of all Americans is diminished when any group is denied rights granted to others.

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.

The Republican Party would have the American flag and the swastika flying side by side.

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

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 civil rights movement didn't begin in Montgomery and it didn't end in the 1960s. It continues on to this very minute.