When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.

The liberals in the House strongly resemble liberals I have known through the last two decades in the civil rights conflict. When it comes time to show on which side they will be counted, they excuse themselves.

It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality.

I’d like them to say that Shirley Chisholm had guts. That’s how I’d like to be remembered.

The minorities have been confined to the city by a moat of bigotry.

I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo.

My God, what do we want? What does any human being want?