We must never surrender. America will get better and better. Keep hope alive. Keep hope alive.

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.

The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.

People always grow and mature.

When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.

The more you focus on sex without love, and drugs and violence, lifestyle of intimidation and recycling, the less energy you spend on opening up the big tent.

It is a historical error for those who were not there to just refer to August 28th as 'I Have a Dream' speech day. That is a real disservice to those who were there. It was a sad day. It was not a celebration environment.