In fact, the Harvard study data indicates that 70 percent of African American children attend schools that are predominately African American, about the same level as in 1968 when Dr. King died.

It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Civil Rights Act.

It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree.

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.

There is nothing Federal about local volunteer fire departments.

No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education.

In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country.

While there are many obstacles that deter students from going to college, finances by no means should be the deciding factor.

We can play politics, or we can reduce crime.

We can continue our progress as a Nation toward the promise that all people are created equal and that our Nation will treat every person in that spirit.

Obviously, there has to be a profound change in direction. Otherwise, interest on the national debt will start eating up virtually every penny that we have.

Being broke didn't seem so awful as it had yesterday, being broke but being at peace with the world.("Don't Wait Up For Me Tonight")

Being Jem, Tessa reflected, must be a great deal like being the owner of a thouroughbred dog that liked to bite your guests. You had to have a hand on his collar constantly.

It didn't take long to realize I didn't hardly know nothing. And that if you ast yourself why you black or a man or a woman or a bush it don't mean nothing if you don't ast why you here, period

Happiness comes to those who are moving toward something they want very much to happen. And it almost always involves making someone else happy.

I want you to have all the academic freedom you want as long as you wind up saying the bible account (of creation) is true and all others are not.

There is no truth without responsibility following in its wake.

I never look at the newspaper in the morning. That's the worst thing you can do with your brain.

I teach my sighs to lengthen into songs.

As we've said, it's not a coincidence that Fear Itself, Schism, and other big stories end at the same time. This is the first brick in the next road.