Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.

Let nothing and nobody break your spirit. Let the unity in the community remain intact.

I preach nonviolence because it's the better alternative.

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

If the states had to vote on slavery, we would have lost the vote.

You know, people'd always ask "Why is Jesse Jackson running for the White House?" They never seen the house I'm running from.

Everywhere I go, kids walk around not with books under their arms, but with radios up against their heads. Children can't read or write, but they can memorize whole albums.