Tremendous changes are taking place in our country, eradicating the concept of second-class citizenship.

I believe that Christianity in the United States has been dragging its feet, and I don't think there's any other force in America that has been more detrimental to the solution of our racial problems than Christianity.

Even people who don't understand same sex marriage understand this country never, ever allowed for second-class citizenship. This battle will be won eventually.

Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.

I am proud to be a member of the Congress of the United States.

Where Negroes provide 20 percent of the vote, they should have 20 per cent of the jobs.