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We must give the American worker the first option of ownership.
You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.
In many ways Africa subsidised America and Europe's development.
Pictures can live in one's memory. That's why they are important.
Any attempt to dilute my support for Sen. Obama will not succeed.
If the states had to vote on slavery, we would have lost the vote.
If I were a white candidate, I'd have won the Democratic nomination.
If you try you may fail, if you don't try you're guaranteed to fail.
has done a great job walking a thin line between revenge and remedy.
America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
What's good for the very rich might not be good for anybody but them.
Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.
There is no power in cynicism. There is no forward thrust in cynicism.
Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn't make it a biscuit.
No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high.
Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
I'm not wasting my time with any more non-straight-talking candidates.
I must oppose the use of federal funds for a policy of killing infants.
If you run, you might lose. If you don't run, you're guaranteed to lose.
America needs young people to be inspired to choose sacrifice over greed.
Obama used to be a community organizer. He knows how to build communities.
You can't teach what you don't know. And you can't lead where you don't go.
If you don't know what tomorrow holds, you need to know who holds tomorrow!
We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.
Inclusion is not a matter of political correctness. It is the key to growth.
I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
When Blacks got the right to vote, white women got the right to sit on juries.
No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there's no future in riots.
People like to say don't abort, adopt. But I'm saying don't strip, scholarship.
The only time you should look down at someone, is when you are helping them up.
We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
I have worked hard to build relationships between Jewish people and black people.
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
Humanitarian appeals always help. They penetrate deeper than political tradeoffs.
I hear that melting-pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted.
Unfortunate. Unfortunate. Sometimes people struggling for freedom lose their way.
I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted.
At the end of the day, we're defined by our predicament, not by the sides of town.
You are not going to revive the unemployment of 26 million Americans with tax cuts.
When they wrote the Constitution, only white male landowners had the right to vote.
The ground is no place for a champion. The ground is no place that I will wallow on.
Our goal was not freedom. Freedom was the necessary prerequisite to get to equality.
When God rang the bell that ended the fight, the world cried out for one more round.
You really need a renewed commitment for the direct investment of jobs at the bottom.
While I've spent a lot of quality time with my children, perhaps it's not been enough.
You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
Let nothing and nobody break your spirit. Let the unity in the community remain intact.
A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
The first thing that has to happen is the protection of voting rights and registration.