There's great disparity between who goes to college and who goes to jail. Who lives long and who dies prematurely, is the defining issue of our time. And I submit to you, there's a significant race dimension, it is basically class-driven.

Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.

I was blessed to go abroad and bring Americans home from jail in Syria, and Iraq, and Cuba, and Yugoslavia, and Liberia, those are high moments of my life.

If the states had to vote on slavery, we would have lost the vote.

The only time you should look down at someone, is when you are helping them up.

It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life.

Our flag is read, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbown-red, yellow, brown, black and white - and we're all precious in God's sight.