A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open, honest dialogue.

Martin Luther King's legacy is never to be measured by bricks and mortar, but rather by the kind of lives that we live, and the kind of love and service that we render.

You have to have a habitual vision of greatness ... you have to believe in fact that you will refuse to settle for mediocrity. You won't confuse your financial security with your personal integrity, you won't confuse your success with your greatness or your prosperity with your magnanimity ... believe in fact that living is connected to giving.

We want to bear witness today that we know the relation between corporate greed and what goes on too often in the Supreme Court decisions.

For most of the history of the American empire, government has been a tool for preserving and furthering the power and might of white male corporate elites.

To accept your country without betraying it, you must love it for that which shows what it might become. America -- this monument to the genius of ordinary men and women, this place where hope becomes capacity, this long, halting turn of 'no' into the 'yes' -- needs citizens who love it enough to re-imagine and re-make it.

The question is really how do we think seriously about this mechanism called a market. It ought to be determining not values but prices.