“He has stood for the inclusion of all segments of our society under the law; women, gender equality, workers’ rights to organize, and civil rights for the least able.”

I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.

George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.

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

The poor and the working poor have been locked out of the nation’s consciousness, even by the media and by many ministers. Katrina washed away the debris that was covering the locked out and left behind.

He should be removed from the airwaves as soon as possible. Bill Bennett owes America an apology. He certainly owes African-Americans an apology.

We want the youth to stand still knowing that their parents and their ministers would cross the line for them.

Keep hope alive!

You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.

If my mind can conceive it, My heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it!

Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.

America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.

We must somehow bring our soldiers back home and not allow them to be trophies in a growing, deepening crisis between the U.S. and China.

To call her a seamstress is irrelevant, She was not arrested for sewing. She was a freedom fighter.

The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt.

All lives have an equal value.

One succeeds in obtaining an equivalent production at a lower price by improving the arts, trades and agriculture and by developing the physical and moral qualities of workers, farmers and craftsmen.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

Until we reach equality in education, we can’t reach equality in the larger society.

O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe.

That one true heart was left behind! What feeling do we ever find, to equal among human kind, a dog’s fidelity!

We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.

Both of them were very good and kind – the one who went to church and the one who didn’t. And no doubt from them I learned to like both Christians and sinners equally well.