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.

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.

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.

Griffin Bell later apologized to me for that decision.

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

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

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