Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise..

Martin Luther King was talking about racism, war and poverty. I think we have made progress enormous progress in racism and war, but we have made lit….

Do not try to live your children's lives out of your own frustrations..

When people ask where I studied to be an ambassador, I say my neighborhood and my school. I've tried to tell my kids that you don't wait until you're….

I tried. But not everybody thought so..

Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got.

When the long, varnished buds of beech Point out beyond their reach, And tanned by summer suns Leaves of bright bryony turn bronze, And gossamer floa….

Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together..

Violence is not more efficient than non-violence..

I would define morality as enlightened self-interest...That old Platonic ideal that there are certain pure moral forms just isn't where we are..

There is a happy land, Far, far away, Where Saints in glory stand, Bright, bright as day..

Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making..

I think we've made tremendous progress on racism. We've even made progress on war. We've made almost no progress on poverty..

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 ….

Our children lost our direction because they have been compromised. They have found freedom at the ballot box, and then they have taken on plastic ch….

My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts..

I was much more comfortable and a much better congressman running in a district that was 37 percent black, where I had to have a white constituency t….

I always quoted to my parents from Kahlil Gibran, "The Prophet." Your children are not your children. They come through you, but not from you. You ca….

I was raised that way: don't get mad, get smart..

If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently..

We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation..