Watch the walls come down, whether it's in the South or on Wall Street. When the walls come down, what do we find? More markets, more talent, more capital and growth. Which means that the race and sex discrimination stunt economic growth. It's not good for capitalism. It's not good for America's growth. And it's not morally right.

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

Statehood for the District of Columbia is the most important civil rights and social justice issue in America today.

When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.

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

Life has its dimensions in the mysterious.

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