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

Our flag is read, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbown-red, yellow, brown, black and white - and we're all precious in God's sight.

Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet

Peace is the alternative to war, and nonviolence should be seen as the antidote to violence, not simply as its opposite. Nonviolence is more concerned with saving life than with saving face.

Black and Jewish leaders have been a coalition of conscience.