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.

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

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

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

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

Any time someone carries a picket sign in front of the White House, that is the First Amendment in action

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