We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up. Jesus said that we should not be judged by the bark we wear but by the fruit that we bear. Jesus said that we must measure greatness by how we treat the least of these.
Inclusion is not a matter of political correctness. It is the key to growth.
Let nothing and nobody break your spirit. Let the unity in the community remain intact.
If you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.
The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once you achieve, you have achieved, indeed.
A man must be willing to die for...
Our goal was not freedom. Freedom was the necessary prerequisite to get to equality.
In Afghanistan, there is a plan to build democracy; hundreds of thousands of troops are protecting it. There is a plan to rebuild and reconstruct there. But many thousands of Americans die from violence and poverty every year and we don’t have a plan for reconstruction at home.
We went across the South on Super Tuesday without a single catcall or boo, without a single ugly sign. Not until we got to New York and the North did the litmus test of race and religion spout from the mouths of public officials.
I must oppose the use of federal funds for a policy of killing infants.
Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn’t make it a biscuit.
I preach nonviolence because it’s the better alternative.
Choose the human race over the nuclear race. Bury the weapons and don’t burn the people.
We must give the American worker the first option of ownership.
When we do in Grenada what the Soviet Union did in Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan, we lose moral authority and credibility.
I’ve paid my dues. I’ve earned your votes. Send me.
We picked their cotton. We cooked their food. We nursed their babies. Now we can run their cities. We can run their states. We will run the country.
Workers, black and white, need some kind of international affirmative action to protect them from unfair competition with unorganized or slave labor abroad and unfair competition with robots at home.
Unfortunate. Unfortunate. Sometimes people struggling for freedom lose their way.
If I were a white candidate, I’d have won the Democratic nomination.