“People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.”

Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow – red, yellow, brown, black and white -and we’re all precious in God’s sight.

I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven’t melted.

We were fundamentally the same. They expressed their anger more willingly. We developed the capacity to internalize our anger, using a nonviolent discipline.

The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.

Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.

In many ways, history is marked as ‘before’ and ‘after’ Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.

The invasion only made matters worse. The occupation will not work, Iraq is unoccupiable, that will not work.

When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.

Abortion is black genocide, What happens to the mind of a person and the moral fabric of a nation that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience?

It’s not enough to be quiet. Quietness is the absence of noise. We need peace, the presence of justice and to be – and so people here can coexist and live together.

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.

Giuliani has certainly set a climate for permissiveness of violence and mean police behavior.

We must all learn a good lesson – how to live together. That is the new challenge of the new world, learning to co-exist and not co-annihilate.

These students are courageous and this is an experience they will never forget, They held on to hope and had the strength and determination to survive.

No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there’s no future in riots.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century.

I made education the highest priority of my campaign – actually education and jobs – and the reason is a simple one: I think the future of America depends on it.

I started piano when I was four. My mom taught me. And then I went to Manhattan School of Music during high school, like every Saturday. And then I went to Berklee for college, in Boston.

My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures.

Making disciples isn’t about gathering pupils to listen to your teaching. The real focus is not on teaching people at all–the focus is on loving them.

I went to the public schools myself. And they were great for me.

Teachers are the most important individuals in our society – nothing is as powerful as the human touch in education.

It’s evolution, man. Eventually the student becomes the teacher.