I'm the world's original gradualist. I just think ninety-odd years is gradual enough.

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

It is now well established that the Constitution protects the right to receive information and ideas. ... This right to receive information and ideas, regardless of their social worth, ... is fundamental to our free society.

[It is] a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries.

In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.

I wish I could say that racism and prejudice were only distant memories... We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the mistrust... We must dissent because America can do better, because America has no choice but to do better.

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