We must recognize that all the civil rights laws in the world are not going to solve the problem of minority underachievement. Ultimately, blacks and Hispanics are going to have to see that their solution is largely in their own hands.

I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.

I feel very strongly that the Democratic Party has, in the past, been the party of the future. I think when you look at Social Security and Medicare, when you look at the civil rights movement, the women's movement, I think the Democratic Party has always been in the forefront of change.

There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.

I'm a child of the Civil Rights Movement.

The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.