[T]he vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

Already a congressman, to a mentor “I hope sometime you run across something you think I can do well 24 hours per day.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources–because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.

If we stand passively by while the centre of each city becomes a hive of depravation, crime and hopelessness…if we become two people, the suburban affluent and the urban poor, each filled with mistrust and...

Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact.

We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.

Ask him about the cemeteries, Dean!”In 1966 upon being told that President Charles DeGaulle had taken France out of NATO and that all U.S. troops must be evacuated off of French soil President Lyndon Johnson...