Obama is to the Tea Party as the moon is to werewolves.

Black reporters are as capable of racism as anyone else.

There's this big debate that goes on in America about what rights are: Civil rights, human rights, what they are? it's an artificial debate. Because everybody has rights. Everybody has rights - I don't care who you are, what you do, where you come from, how you were born, what your race or creed or color is. You have rights. Everybody's got rights.

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

You must place interest in principle above interest on principal.

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

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