Nobody black had learned anything from the 'Letter from the Birmingham Jail' or from the 'I Have a Dream' speech. That was a revelation of white people.
Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together.
No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.
I was much more comfortable and a much better congressman running in a district that was 37 percent black, where I had to have a white constituency to get elected, than I would have been if I was in a 75 percent black district.
Nobody black had learned anything from the Letter from the Birmingham Jail or from the I Have a Dream speech. That was a revelation of white people.
We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk.