Most Americans have never seen the ignorance, degradation, hunger, sickness, and futility in which many other Americans live...They won't become involved in economic or political change until something brings the seriousness of the situation home to them.

My greatest political asset, which professional politicians fear, is my mouth, out of which come all kinds of things one shouldn't always discuss for reasons of political expediency.

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

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

In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism.

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

Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission.