Some members of Congress are among the best actors in the world.

America has the laws and the material resources it takes to insure justice for all its people. What it lacks is the heart, the humanity.

... all Americans are the prisoners of racial prejudice.

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.

It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.

One distressing thing is the way men react to women who assert their equality: their ultimate weapon is to call them unfeminine. They think she is anti-male; they even whisper that she's probably a lesbian.