None Of Us Got Where

Some Years Ago I Said In An Opinion That If This Country Is A Melting Pot, Then Either The Afro-americans Didn't Get In The Pot Or He Didn't Get Melted Down.

None Of Us Got Where We Are Solely By Pulling Ourselves Up By Our Bootstraps.

Equal Means Getting The Same Thing, At The Same Time And In The Same Place.

We Can Always Stick Together When We Are Losing, But Tend To Find Means Of Breaking Up When We're Winning. In Grace Under Pressure, By Hastie, 1984.

To The Contrary, The Government They Devised Was Defective From The Start, Requiring Several Amendments, A Civil War And Momentous Social Transformation To Attain The System Of Constitutional Government, And Its Respect For The Individual Freedoms And Human Rights, We Hold As Fundamental Today.