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.

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

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

Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish.

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.

In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.

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