The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.

I think one can live in American society with a certain cultural heritage, whether it's an African heritage or other, European,what have you, and still absorb a great deal of this culture. There is always cultural assimilation.

Babies, we are told, are the latest news from heaven.

... the right to defend one's home and one's person when attacked has been guaranteed through the ages by common law.

I just want to be there in love and in justice and in truth and in commitment to others, so that we can make of this old world a new world.

We know of no more crucial civil rights issue facing Congress today than the need to increase the federal minimum wage and extend its coverage.