It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life.

The ground is no place for a champion. The ground is no place that I will wallow on.

The first thing that has to happen is the protection of voting rights and registration.

A new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don't cry about what you don't have. Use what you got.

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.

Our dreams must be stronger than our memories.

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