We're in a real crisis situation where many times people are being turned away at the door.

People that work can get in and out in record time for the luncheon as we have an express line for them to go through.

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

The colonel replied that he didn't care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

If indeed this is the work of God... then it's a crisis that calls for the church to be its very best self, and not worry about risking itself for the right thing.

I cannot salute the flag; I know that I am a black man in a white world. In 1972, in 1947, at my birth in 1919, I know that I never had it made.