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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for more.