I've appeared on a weekly syndicated television show since 1980

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.

If you have no troubles – buy a goat.

And nothing is, but what is not.

A stupid man behaves stupidly, not because he wants to, or tries to, or is motivated to, but simply because he is what he is.

The great epochs of our life come when we gain the courage to rechristen our evil as what is best in us.

The most important thing is to change what children see from the beginning. To not create a problem we have to fix later.

There is a lot of advice on baby feeding, but almost nothing on how to help crying babies.

I’ve got to do something about the way I look. I mean a girl just can’t go to Sing Sing with a green face.

I think people are always nostalgic for a time about 20 years before they were born.

Be relentless in your looking, because you are the one you seek.

I'm a bit of a mummy's boy.