We’ve been so preoccupied with getting the government to behave in a fair and democratic way, we were not able to focus on the private sector where most of the jobs are, where most of the wealth and opportunities are.

Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.

Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.

My very first recollection of life on earth was waking up in bed with my mother, and she was showing me a picture of my father, Charles Jackson, with a group of soldiers.

If a black doctor discovers a cure for cancer, ain't no hospital going to lock him out.

A man who cannot be enticed by money or intimidated by the threat of jail or death has two of the strongest weapons that anyone has to offer.

We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up. Jesus said that we should not be judged by the bark we wear but by the fruit that we bear. Jesus said that we must measure greatness by how we treat the least of these.