No race has a monopoly on vice or virtue, and the worth of an individual is not related to the color of his skin.

The unhealthy gap between what we preach in America and what we often practice creates a moral dry rot that eats at the very foundation of our democratic ideals and values.

It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

Liberalism seems to be related to the distance people are from the problem.

I am not anxious to be the loudest voice or the most popular. But I would like to think that at a crucial moment, I was an effective voice of the voiceless, an effective hope of the hopeless.

Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new skills for a new job. . . .

No race has a monopoly on vice or virtue, and the worth of an individual is not related to the color of his skin.