[On Thomas Babington Macaulay:] He was a most disagreeable companion to my fancy. . . His conversation was a procession of one.
[It is] a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries.
We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the mistrust. We must dissent from a nation that has buried its head in the sand, waiting in vain for the needs of its poor, its elderly, and its sick to disappear and just blow away. We must dissent from a government that has left its young without jobs, education or hope. We must dissent from the poverty of vision and the absence of moral leadership. We must dissent because America can do better, because America has no choice but to do better.
Equal means getting the same thing, at the same time and in the same place.
None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.
To protest against injustice is the foundation of all our American democracy.
I wish I could say that racism and prejudice were only distant memories. . . We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the mistrust. . . We must dissent because America can do better, because America has no choice but to do better.
The calla lilies are in bloom again. Such a strange flower—suitable to any occasion. I carried them on my wedding day, and now I place them here in memory of something that has died.
The advocates of a criminal are seldom artists enough to turn the beautiful terribleness of the deed to the advantage of the doer.
We don't get groupies. We get teenagers who want to read us their poetry.
Their lips brushed like young wild flowers in the wind.