There's a full-court press to put down an uprising around Ferguson, but no preparation for lifting up the people there.
Many have fought for and even lost their lives to end segregation, to win the right to vote. It disappoints me to now have to cajole people to register and to vote.
So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it's uniform color versus skin color. We have - we've overcome that level of racial fear.
A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.
America needs young people to be inspired to choose sacrifice over greed.
If you run, you might lose. If you don't run, you're guaranteed to lose.
If you don't know what tomorrow holds, you need to know who holds tomorrow!
A man who cannot be enticed by money or intimidated by the threat of jail or death has two of the strongest weapons that anyone has to offer.
The more you focus on sex without love, and drugs and violence, lifestyle of intimidation and recycling, the less energy you spend on opening up the big tent.
You know, people'd always ask 'Why is Jesse Jackson running for the White House?' They never seen the house I'm running from.
I have worked hard to build relationships between Jewish people and black people.
I am a journalist.
If the American people in a matter of months can love the people of Kuwait, whom they have not seen, they can love the people of our nation's capital just as well.
No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.
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.
We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together.
When they wrote the Constitution, only white male landowners had the right to vote.
We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
So much talent comes from the base of poverty and those in the margins. You limit the base, you miss too much talent.
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.
