The talk of winning our share is not the easy one of disengagement and flight, but the hard one of work, of short as well as long jumps, of disappointments, and of sweet success.

Slowly we have lifeted ourselves by our own bootstraps. Step by halting step, we have beat our way back

Nothing should be overlooked in fighting for better education.

Nothing is more important than a good education.

Muffle your rage. Get smart instead of muscular.

. . . first in myth, later in reality, passion and violence watered my root soil.

It would appear that the state of Mississippi has decided to maintain white supremacy by murdering children.

Nothing should be overlooked in fighting for better education. Be persistent and ornery: this will be good for the lethargic educational establishment and will aid the whole cause of public education.

The players in this drama of frustration and indignity are not commas or semicolons in a legislative thesis; they are people, human beings, citizens of the United States of America.

President Eisenhower was a fine general and a good, decent man, but if he had fought World War II the way he fought for civil rights, we would all be speaking German now.