Quoted: Hillary's reckless exploitation of racial division could split the Democratic Party over race -- a tragic legacy for the Clintons.

This is a pretty despicable statement.

Quoted: Clinton cited an Associated Press article "that found how Sen. Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me."

Quoted: It is an injustice, a legacy of the racist threads of this nation’s history, but prominent African-Americans are regularly called upon to explain or repudiate what other black Americans have to say, while white public figures are rarely, if ever, handed that burden.

Quoted: "Fried chicken anyone?" "You speak really well." "Is that your real hair?"

Quoted: The party was unable to get its act together in 1968 and unite behind Hubert Humphrey, thus opening the door for Richard Nixon. The ramifications of that bitter election are still being felt.

This is a wonderful essay by King's biographer, Taylor Branch, on the 40th anniversary of King's assasination.

Quoted: Many of Dr. King’s closest comrades rejected his commitment to nonviolence. The civil rights movement created waves of history so long as it remained nonviolent, then stopped. Arguably, the most powerful tool for democratic reform was the first to become passé. It vanished among intellectuals, on campuses and in the streets. To this day, almost no one asks why.

Quoted: The following is the text as prepared for delivery of Senator Barack Obama’s speech on race in Philadelphia, as provided by his presidential campaign.