Do not try to live your children's lives out of your own frustrations.
Everybody in America has been dependent on the government at some time. We owe everybody in America the right to vote and access to capital. What I say is, let's make America work, let's make democracy and free enterprise work for everybody.
Everybody is determined by his own experience.
Everything that has happened in my life is because of good government and because the United States of America was the greatest nation on the face of the earth.
I grew up in the middle of a block where there was an Irish grocery store on one corner, an Italian bar on another corner and the Nazi Party was on the third corner.
I think we've made tremendous progress on racism. We've even made progress on war. We've made almost no progress on poverty.
I was raised that way: don't get mad, get smart.
I'm against voter fraud in any form, and I have long supported a national voter ID card. But ID cards need not- and must not- restrict voting rights in any way, shape or form.
If Congress can move President's Day, Columbus Day and, alas, Martin Luther King's Birthday celebration for the convenience of shoppers, shouldn't they at least consider moving Election Day for the convenience of voters?
If I wanted to develop a scenario to destroy America, I would do what the Republicans are doing. Take the brightest and best young black men off the streets, put them in jail, make them meaner than hell for 8 or 10 years and then turn them lose in a society where there are plenty of guns for them to play with.
If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.
In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.
Influence is like a savings account. The less you use it, the more you've got.
Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.
My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.
No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.
Nothing is illegal if a hundred businessmen decide to do it, and that's true anywhere in the world.
On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.
Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.
One of the principles of nonviolence is that you leave your opponents whole and better off than you found them.
President Jimmy Carter was a citizen soldier. Ironically, he was considered weak because he didn't kill anybody and he didn't get anyone killed.
Slavery didn't break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.
The two are not mutually exclusive, but we think we can have wealth without good ideas and without values and without a clear vision. Wealth without vision is insanity.
The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.
There can be no democracy without truth. There can be no truth without controversy, there can be no change without freedom. Without freedom there can be no progress.
To whom much is given, much is required- not expected, but required.
We rise in glory as we sink in pride.
We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.
Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.
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