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

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.

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.

History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.

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.

Truth is more than a mental exercise.