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.

America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.

Pictures can live in one's memory. That's why they are important.

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

Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.

It does not stand to give banks millions of dollars at an interest rate of one percent, when banks charge students an interest rate of 6 percent. Why should the banks be scalping students?

When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.