American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.

Every team requires unity. A team has to move as one unit, one force, with each person understanding and assisting the roles of his teammates. If the team doesn't do this, whatever the reason, it goes down in defeat. You win or lose as a team, as a family.

He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.

All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.

Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.

There's no limit to what free men and free women in a free market with free enterprise can accomplish when people are free to follow their dream.

The chance to own a home; chance to own an education; chance to get access to capital. This is the real civil rights battle of the twenty-first century.