We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.

There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps... then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.

We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.

When I first went to jail in 1960 with seven classmates trying to use their public library against the backdrop of my father being a veteran of World War II, not being able to use - having to sit behind Nazi on American military bases, I lost my fear of jails and death.

Our premise is that inclusion leads to growth. So for those who are locked out, they lose development, and those who are in power lose market and growth.

I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.

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