The time has arrived in America for the Democratic Party to get out of the shadows of states rights and walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights

What do we want for people? Human dignity, personal expression and fulfillment, justice, freedom.

What you do, what each of us does, has an effect on the country, the state, the nation, and the world.

The measure of a civilization is how it treats those at the dawn of life, the margins of life and the twilight of life.

Peace is not passive, it is active. Peace is not appeasement, it is strength. Peace does not 'happen,' it requires work.

I am not here to judge whether people are locked in poverty because of themselves or because of the society in which they live. All I know is that they are there and we are trying to do something about it.

There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.