Marriage is a civil right. If you don't want gay people to marry in your church, good for you. But you can't say they can't marry in your city.

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.

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.

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

Black reporters are as capable of racism as anyone else.

There is no coloration to rights. Everybody has rights. I don't care who you are, where you come from. You got rights. I got rights. All God's children got rights.

Griffin Bell later apologized to me for that decision.