Difference Is Of The Essence

My Father Was Unemployed And I Was The Eldest Of Seven Children. We Were Very Poor. And When You Ask How Did We Support Ourselves, The Only Funding That We Had Was Unemployment Payments.

The Civil Rights Movement In The United States Was About The Same Thing, About Equality Of Treatment For All Sections Of The People, And That Is Precisely What Our Movement Was About

These Are The Influences That Everybody Has. Some Individuals Might Stand Out Because Of One Thing Or Another, But Whether One's Perception As A Child Of What Was Important Or Not Is Accurate, I Don't Know.

I Never Thought In Terms Of Being A Leader. I Thought Very Simply In Terms Of Helping People.

Like Everybody At That Age, I Read An Awful Lot Of Pulp Fiction. But At The Same Time, I Also Read Quite A Bit Of History And Read That As Much For Pleasure As Part Of A Curriculum.