If you're an American and you are, you know, subscribing to the ideals and the creed and the values that we believe in as a country, you know, then we don't have a religious test in this country.

The law is a powerful thing but the law doesn't always change what's in people's hearts. And so all of us have an obligation to think about how we're treating other people.

In the midst of economic recovery and global upheaval, disasters like this remind us of the common humanity that we share.

It's a generational project just to get America to live up fully to its ideals and to have the kind of society where everybody has a shot, and every kid is getting a good education, and people are getting living wages, and they have decent retirement.

I decided to become a community organizer ... Change won't come from the top, I would say. Change will come from a mobilized grass roots.

You can be stylish, and powerful too.

Sometimes slow, steady effort is rewarded with justice that arrives like a thunderbolt.