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.

People see America through particular lenses, either their profession, their race or their gender. So the party that speaks to our racial perceptions and offers solutions to the racial difficulties which we face is the party that's going to be rewarded with our votes.

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

Black reporters are as capable of racism as anyone else.

I do think that some of us began to realize that this was going to be a long struggle that was going to go on for decades, and you'd have to knuckle down. A lot of people in our generation did that. They didn't drop out and run away

I was a Georgia state legislator for a great many years

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