Equal means getting the same thing, at the same time and in the same place.

The Ku Klux Klan never dies. They just stop wearing sheets because sheets cost too much.

A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi... has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for.

Lawlessness is lawlessness. Anarchy is anarchy is anarchy. Neither race nor color nor frustration is an excuse for either lawlessness or anarchy.

Some years ago I said in an opinion that if this country is a melting pot, then either the Afro-Americans didn't get in the pot or he didn't get melted down.

To protest against injustice is the foundation of all our American democracy.

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.