The right to be heard does not include the right to be taken seriously.

There are those who say to you -- we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late.

There are those who say to you - we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late.

Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.