Political Quotes

“My friends who express pro-life sentiments need the opportunity this bill provides to disassociate themselves from the small but determined and often effective band of storm trooper-like extremists who are discrediting their movement. In the South, as a student, I participated in many civil rights demonstrations. We were from various tendencies, some of us more militant than the others. I considered myself as a student from the most militant tendency in the movement. If someone by this time in the year, let us say, 1963, when I was in law school, had told me that civil rights demonstrators, before the entrances of our declared enemies, the racists, had committed 33 violent incidents, including 8 arsons, 1 bombing, 15 incidents of vandalism and assault, we, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, would have stood up and looked for the nearest microphone so that we could have disassociated ourselves from those incidents, because we knew that those incidents, that violence discredited our movement, and we loved our movement too much to embrace those who departed from nonviolence.”