As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge.

The humanity of all Americans is diminished when any group is denied rights granted to others.

The civil rights movement didn't begin in Montgomery and it didn't end in the 1960s. It continues on to this very minute.

Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.

Good things don't come to those who wait. They come to those who agitate!

Many are attracted to social service - the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we have social justice, we won't need social service.

Obama is to the Tea Party as the moon is to werewolves.

You must place interest in principle above interest on principal.

The president of the branch in Atlanta was a pastor of a church, the Reverend Sam Williams, a wonderful guy. He was middle-class and fairly militant for the time and place.

The Republican Party would have the American flag and the swastika flying side by side.

Unlike mainstream civil rights groups, which merely sought integration of blacks into the existing order, SNCC sought structural changes in American society itself.

A black cat crossed my path, and I stopped to dance around it widdershins and to sing the

I know that mirrors give us a false sense of confidence.” I continued. “The reflection that we see everyday has nothing to do with how others see us. The glass lies.

The trouble with life is that we lead it forwards and understand it backwards.

Physically I'm tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight

One wonders sometimes, looking at the world, how it's dealing with itself. There are days when you wake up and you feel very optimistic and there are days when you feel pessimistic.

December's wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer's memory.

Distance is always helpful, and the fact that I'm a U.S. politics junkie helps a lot.

The monster, fanaticism, still exists, and whoever seeks after truth will run the risk of being persecuted.

If I can wheedle A knife or a needle, Why not a Silver Churn?

We are oft to blame in this, - 'tis too much proved, - that with devotion's visage, and pios action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.