It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.
Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror.
Male privilege and entitlement are dying a very painful death; no one gives up power without a struggle.
Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.
Israel should not feel satisfaction at my son's death, for he died on the battlefield, facing the conquerors as he wished, with a gun in his hand.
If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.
A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.
A man who cannot be enticed by money or intimidated by the threat of jail or death has two of the strongest weapons that anyone has to offer.
The death tax punishes the American dream - making it virtually impossible for the average American family to build wealth across generations.
The measure would set criminal penalties, the same as those that would apply if harm or death happened to the pregnant woman, for those who harm a fetus.
The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide.
Anytime you deny the acknowledgement of God you are undermining the entire basis for which our country exists.
The proof that God has revealed himself to man by special and express communications, and that Christianity constitutes that revelation, is no part of these inquiries.
Oh my God, I don't think you can say anyone looks forward to controversy.
A great teacher who is full of excitement and love for her students can make all the difference in their lives.
The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
The question of religion was a matter for each individual's conscience, and in a great many cases was the outcome of birth or residence in a certain geographical area.
Young people have been at the forefront of every great social movement in our country's history.
I always say, and I mean it, that the great break of my literary career was when I went to law school.
Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.
I have always argued, in a good novel, interesting things happen to interesting people.
