Negro poverty is not white poverty. Many of its causes and many of its cures are the same. But there are differences - deep, corrosive, obstinate differences - radiating painful roots into the community and into the family, and the nature of the individual. These differences are not racial differences. They are solely and simply the consequence of ancient brutality, past injustice, and present prejudice.

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

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

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

It__ clearly a budget. It__ got lots of numbers in it.

Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact.