Our goal was not freedom. Freedom was the necessary prerequisite to get to equality.

We went across the South on Super Tuesday without a single catcall or boo, without a single ugly sign. Not until we got to New York and the North did the litmus test of race and religion spout from the mouths of public officials.

Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf.

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

In order for an ideal to become a reality, there must be a person, a personality to translate it.

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.

Obama used to be a community organizer. He knows how to build communities.