If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.

Most poor people are not on welfare. . . I know they work. I'm a witness. They catch the early bus. They work every day. They raise other people's children. They work every day. They clean the streets. They work every day. They drive vans with cabs. They work every day. They change beds you slept in these hotels last night and can't get a union contract. They work every day . . .

If whites would vote their economic interests, not their racial fears, we the people who have the most need for change have the power to bring about that change nonviolently.

The relationship between the prophet and the President, the priest and the President, is a sacred one.

It'll be a great day when the seniors have all the baseball caps they need and the Pentagon bombs Gilligan's Island.

The ground is no place for a champion. The ground is no place that I will wallow on.

So many bright stars, bright in life, burn out quickly.