The United States has been called the melting pot of the world. But it seems to me that the colored man either missed getting into the pot or he got melted down.

Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.

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.

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

Surely the fact that a uniformed police officer is wearing his hair below his collar will make him no less identifiable as a policeman.

The United States has been called the melting pot of the world. But it seems to me that the colored man either missed getting into the pot or he got melted down.

[T]he Constitution was a product of its times. [Progressive]