We can always stick together when we are losing, but tend to find means of breaking up when we're winning. In Grace under Pressure, by Hastie, 1984.

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

The Ku Klux Klan never dies. They just stop wearing sheets because sheets cost too much.

I cannot accept this invitation [to celebrate the bicentenial of the Constitution], for I do not believe that the meaning of the Constitution was forever 'fixed' at the Philadelphia Convention... To the contrary, the government they devised was defective from the start. [Progressive]

Customary greeting to Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, What's shaking, chiefy baby?

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

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.