Choose the human race over the nuclear race. Bury the weapons and don't burn the people.

Watch the walls come down, whether it's in the South or on Wall Street. When the walls come down, what do we find? More markets, more talent, more capital and growth. Which means that the race and sex discrimination stunt economic growth. It's not good for capitalism. It's not good for America's growth. And it's not morally right.

No lie can live forever.

The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.

In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.

There is no power in cynicism. There is no forward thrust in cynicism.

We blacks were the first people embracing Obama, long before the people at expensive fundraisers were supporting him. We gave him his first love, 96 percent of blacks voted for him in 2008. Yet today we are the number one in unemployment, with 16 percent of American blacks out of work.