Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish.

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.

Truth is more than a mental exercise.

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

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.

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

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