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.

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

Griffin Bell later apologized to me for that decision.

As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge.

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

You know, I come from six generations of college graduates.

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