What's good for Blacks is good for all of America.

My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

When they wrote the Constitution, only white male landowners had the right to vote.

When I was a boy we were poor and we had to make do with what we had. So my grandma used to make us quits that we used for blankets. She couldn't afford to go to the store and buy a blanket -- so she'd take scraps of cloth and sew them together. there'd be different colors and different patterns and different types of cloth -- but they all went together to make that big quilt to keep us warm.

When we take out school psychologists, truant officers, counselors, art, music, and athletics, and bring in the police, the school gets turned into a feeder system for the penal system.

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.

No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high.