The center of the chessboard is a magnet, which pulls to itself all the pieces.
Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.
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.
My idea of a good work-out is two hours spent worrying about the bags under my eyes.
There is no 'thing' to let go of, but a concept, an idea of an ego that burdens us. As soon as we posit a 'thing' to let go of, we're in trouble. We need to change our view of reality, not attack a nonexistent entity.
Error is a hardy plant; it flourishes in every soil.
Rush Limbaugh has answered - it's the rich liberals who own the banks and run the government, and of course run the media, and they don't care about you - they just want to give everything away to illegal immigrants and gays and communists and so on.