The race problem in the United States is the type of unpleasant problem which we would rather do without but which refuses to be buried.

Without education, there is no hope for our people and without hope, our future is lost

Whether elected or appointed, public officials serve those who put and keep them in office. We cannot depend upon them to fight our battles.

We beg you to save young America from the blight of race prejudice. Do not bind the children within the narrow circles of your own lives.

Black power is organizing the rage of Black people and putting new hard questions and demands to white America.

A lawyer is either a social engineer or he is a parasite on society.

A Negro has handicaps enough without having to pay taxes to support the education of white students to learn how to suppress him.

The American color bar unless speedily removed will be the rock on which our international Good Neighbor policy and our pious claims to moral leadership will founder.

Christianity has always seemed to fight a losing battle against race.

The individual college youth cannot wait forever until the problem of his education is decided.

I want everybody to think alike. I think everybody should be a machine.

I was once a student in a punk T-Shirt hooked on screwed-up scenarios. Thats how I became the esteemed cultural figure that I am today.

Despite the fact that David Petraeus is now very highly regarded in foreign policy circles because of his record in both Republican and Democratic circles. It's all pretty extraordinary.

In the beginning Man created God; and in the image of Man created he him. And Man gave unto God a multitude of names, that he might be Lord over the earth when it was suited to man.

My father and mother split and I never saw my father until I was 20, nor did I see much more of my mother.

Why do we insist on building the largest and most impressive structures in our city when people on the other side of town are hungry, jobless and worshipping in storefronts?

He who passes not his days in the realm of dreams is the slave of the days.

They jumped on us. They were the aggressor. They had us on our heels from the beginning.

This world is in deep trouble, from top to bottom. But it can be swiftly healed by the balm of love.

Donald Trump needs to understand the Republican establishment - they're not going to be his friend, either.