The measure of a country's greatness is its ability to retain compassion in time of crisis.

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

To the contrary, the government they devised was defective from the start, requiring several amendments, a civil war and momentous social transformation to attain the system of constitutional government, and its respect for the individual freedoms and human rights, we hold as fundamental today.

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.

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

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