Occupation: Former Mayor Of Atlanta Birth: March 12, 1932
Nobody Black had learned anything from the `Letter from the Birmingham Jail' or from the `I Have a Dream' speech. That was a revelation of white peop….
Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people..
Bill [Clinton] is every bit as black as Barack. He's probably gone with more black women than Barack..
The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport..
My daddy was determined to make me a dentist and a baseball player. And I loved my daddy but I wasted four years of college trying to do what he want….
Both the brightness and the spectrum of the X-rays are very different from what theory predicts..
Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life..
The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents..
If all I get is a little controversy for speaking the truth, if I did less, I would not be worth living..
Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died..
I'm against voter fraud in any form, and I have long supported a national voter ID card. But ID cards need not - and must not - restrict voting right….
To find people who don't want anything is rare..
I wouldn't listen to my parents, but I found out that I absorbed. I never heard what they said - told me - but I did what they did..
If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me..
More and more I find I'm really impressed with how much my son knows and how much he thinks like me. But he never would agree with me and he never wo….
Having personally watched the Voting Rights Act being signed into law that August day, I can't begin to imagine how we could have all been so wrong i….
For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future..
We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk..
Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have..
Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it..
The man with courage is a majority..