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

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

You must place interest in principle above interest on principal.

Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.

I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia

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.

Working in a situation with men and women, and seeing women take on roles equal to the roles taken by men made you understand that, "Hey, these people can do things too." And I think it made me and other people in the movement realize that we're living in a community of equals. And that among those equals, they have equal rights. And we ought to respect their rights if they respected ours.