The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.

I shall never forget the faces of the boys and the girls in that little Welhausen Mexican School, and I remember even yet the pain of realizing and knowing then that college was closed to practically every one of those children because they were too poor. And I think it was then that I made up my mind that this nation could never rest while the door to knowledge remained closed to any American.

He's got great vision. If he can get outside, he can take it all the way. That's what we were worried about.

I am proud to be a member of a party that opens its doors to all men--and closes its hearts to none.

I'm gonna hunker down like a jack rabbit in a dust storm

I hear the headlines on the radio, see them on TV and read them in the paper. When I hear from the men out there, I sometimes don't believe they are talking about the same situation.

There is no Constitutional issue here. The command of the Constitution is plain. There is no moral issue. It is wrong - deadly wrong - to deny any of your fellow Americans the right to vote in this country. There is no issue of States' rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.