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.

Urban America has been redlined. Government has not offered tax incentives for investment, as it has in a dozen foreign markets. Banks have redlined it. Industries have moved out, they've redlined it. Clearly, to break up the redlining process, there must be incentives to green-line with hedges against risk.

We have a moral concern to feed all of the hungry, wipe out malnutrition, so that every American be housed and every child have access to education.

You really need a renewed commitment for the direct investment of jobs at the bottom.

The liberation of Blacks is not for Blacks only.

Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.

Our dreams must be stronger than our memories.