History teaches us that the great revolutions aren't started by people who are utterly down and out, without hope and vision. They take place when people begin to live a little better - and when they see how much yet remains to be achieved.

Never give in and never give up.

The gap between the rich and the poor is the most dangerous threat to world peace we have.

There are those who say to you - we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late.

We will have to decide today whether we will design the future or resign ourselves to it.

Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.

Here we are the way politics ought to be in America; the politics of happiness, the politics of purpose and the politics of joy.