Ray Charles on his early days: “You hear folks talking about being poor,” Charles recounts. “Even compared to other blacks. We were on the bottom of the ladder looking up at everyone else. Nothing below us except the ground.”
On supporting Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement financially: “…early on, I decided that if I was going to shoot craps on anyone’s philosophy, I was putting my money on Martin Luther King Jr. I figured if I was going to pick up my cross and follow someone, it could only be Martin.”
Ronald Reagan on his early years: “I am eternally optimistic, and I happen to believe that we’ve made great progress from the days when I was young and when this country didn’t even know it had a racial problem.”
While signing the Martin Luther King Holiday legislation: “You know, J. Edgar Hoover said King was a communist.”
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