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.

I've paid my dues. I've earned your votes. Send me.

There is fear, police in fear, people if are in fear, children are fear, but fear and hate must not drive our agenda, love and hope and healing must drive the agenda.

Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.

The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once you achieve, you have achieved, indeed.

You cannot teach what you don't know. You cannot give energy if you're not on fire on the inside.

When they wrote the Constitution, only white male landowners had the right to vote.