“Our struggle is a struggle to redeem the soul of America. It’s not a struggle that lasts for a few days, a few weeks, a few months, or a few years. It is the struggle of a lifetime, more than one lifetime.”

You have to have hope. You have to be optimistic in order to continue to move forward.

If you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something about it.

We must continue to go forward as one people, as brothers and sisters.

I truly believe that one day we will get there, we will arrive. And if we do it right in America, maybe, just maybe, we can serve as a model for the rest of the world.

We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us.

I say from time to time that the vote is precious.

Without our faith, we wouldn’t have been able to succeed.

The vote is the most powerful nonviolent tool we have.

People should organize people to just turn up and participate in the democratic process. Knock on doors.

You have to take the long hard look and just believe that if you’re consistent, you will succeed.

Some of us gave a little blood for the right to participate in the democratic process.

We need some creative tension; people crying out for the things they want.

You cannot be at home with something that you feel that is wrong, is not right.

It is our responsibility to leave this planet cleaner and greener.

The lessons of nonviolence are universal.

The reward for playing jazz is playing jazz.

Though we may be physically separated, we, the American people are united in spirit.

There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.

My path to victory is to talk about the issues that impact the lives of millions of Americans.

A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.

I like L.A., I like the fans, I like to come out here to work.

The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, ‘How is the president?’

I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.

If there’s going to be class war in this country it’s time the working class won that war.