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.

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

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.

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

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

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 man can make what he wants of himself if he truly believes that he must be ready for hard work and many heartbreaks.