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Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
If a black doctor discovers a cure for cancer, ain't no hospital going to lock him out.
Choose the human race over the nuclear race. Bury the weapons and don't burn the people.
There have been more people disenfranchised in Washington than there have been in Kuwait.
The crown jewel of Dr. King`s movement was to protect the right to vote for all citizens.
At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
You may choose your mate, but you cannot deny someone else the right to choose their mate.
A new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don't cry about what you don't have. Use what you got.
In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
The only justification we have to look down on someone is because we are about to pick him up.
We must never surrender. America will get better and better. Keep hope alive. Keep hope alive.
Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
We are facing a stiff wind right now, but if we persist and keep fighting back, we will prevail.
What we have to be judged by is the work we try to do. It's public service, not perfect service.
In order for an ideal to become a reality, there must be a person, a personality to translate it.
You cannot teach what you don't know. You cannot give energy if you're not on fire on the inside.
When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.
I had gained a greater appreciation of hearing the concerns of woman, doctors, and so many others.
My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.
If you wear a hoodie but aren't registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.
From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
The relationship between the prophet and the President, the priest and the President, is a sacred one.
Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.
Each time a barrier falls for one person, the doors of opportunity open wider for every other American.
The white Christian church never raised to the heights of Christ. It stayed within the limit of culture.
George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
President Obama projects a strong offense, but he faces a rebellious Congress focused on state's rights.
Your house is your first small business. It's where your investment is and [where] our greatest asset is.
His [Donald Trump] urban policy is stop and frisk, law and order. And we need investment and development.
Those who have the most wealth and the most property, their children have the first, the best, and the most.
The invasion only made matters worse. The occupation will not work, Iraq is unoccupiable, that will not work.
The American people on the ground need a clearer, stronger, Lyndon B. Johnson-type voice from their president.
Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.
We need a regime change in this country.... If we launch a pre-emptive strike on Iraq we lose all moral authority.
That's all Hymie wants to talk about is Israel. Every time you go to Hymietown that's all they want to talk about.
Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.
It'll be a great day when the seniors have all the baseball caps they need and the Pentagon bombs Gilligan's Island.
Statehood for the District of Columbia is the most important civil rights and social justice issue in America today.
So much talent comes from the base of poverty and those in the margins. You limit the base, you miss too much talent.
Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God's children.
The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.
Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
There's a full-court press to put down an uprising around Ferguson, but no preparation for lifting up the people there.
When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.
A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.
I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it's time for you to send it back to me - toasted and buttered on both sides.
When we do in Grenada what the Soviet Union did in Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan, we lose moral authority and credibility.
Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
When blacks are unemployed, they are considered lazy and apathetic. When whites are unemployed, it's considered a depression.
It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life.