"Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact."

"We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man."

"Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time."

"You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered."

"I am not suggesting that all those missionary organizations working in Haiti should pack up and go home, but I am urging them to understand that Haiti does not need clever Americans with newly contrived schemes for saving their country."

"By making bold cuts in spending and commonsense entitlement reforms, we will make our government simpler, smaller, and smarter."

"Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances."

"The simplest truths often reveal that a mind at peace can weather any storm."