My advice to any diplomat who wants to have good press is to have two or three kids and a dog.

- Carl T. Rowan

The Reagan Administration has fostered a climate in which a barest majority of the Supreme Court caters to the passions and hatreds of the American m…

- Carl T. Rowan

The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.

- Carl T. Rowan

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has neve…

- Carl T. Rowan

We must reverse this psychology (of needing guns for home defense). WE can do it by passing a law that says anyone found in possession a handgun exce…

- Carl T. Rowan

There aren't any embarrassing questions — just embarrassing answers.

- Carl T. Rowan

It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.

- Carl T. Rowan

(President Nixon,) in the face of a vote to impeach he might try, as "commander-in-chief", to use military forces to keep himself in power.

- Carl T. Rowan

A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.

- Carl T. Rowan