25 Quotes by Taylor Branch

The history of American patriotism is figuring out ways that we can work together to move forward and knit together the common government.

I think the colleges should be free to give athletes less than a full scholarship, no scholarship and more than a scholarship. And the athletes should be free to bargain.

Martin Luther King was a leader for all Americans on our own professed values.

There are an awful lot of people who despise government precisely because it opened the door for common citizenship for people of all races and all natures in the United States.

I am glad that more of this is coming out. They really show ordinary people making extraordinary history. But I wish it had come out sooner.

He (Johnson) had an amazing spiritual quality about him,

King considered himself, first and foremost, a prophet,

When the Birmingham movement happened, it just stunned me, ... I felt a tiny breath of something very powerful. It changed the whole direction of my life's interest.

This (tape issue) is a tiny fraction of a very complicated, difficult personal subject. I am saying there is a grain of truth in what the FBI said.