As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers - a great pity, on both counts.

There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price.

Racism is so universal in this country, so widespread and deepseated, that it is invisible because it is so normal.

I don’t measure America by its achievement but by its potential.

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

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

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