The ground is no place for a champion. The ground is no place that I will wallow on.

Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.

I mean, the fight for a health care bill to cover all Americans and leave none behind is attacked as being a race appeal, which is not true, but then it's put out in the media as true.

How can you have in our country that is based upon liberality and liberation, be so anti-liberal. That's toxic waste to our consciousness. It's hard to be an American conservative because that's a contradiction in terms. Now if you take away freedom of speech, freedom of press, freedom of protest, and lock people out based upon their race, their language and their religion, that's conservative and fascist. America is a liberal idea.

You know, people'd always ask "Why is Jesse Jackson running for the White House?" They never seen the house I'm running from.

Racism as a form of skin worship, and as a sickness and a pathological anxiety for America, is so great, until the poor whites -- rather than fighting for jobs or education -- fight to remain pink and fight to remain white. And therefore they cannot see an alliance with people that they feel to be inherently inferior.

The white Christian church never raised to the heights of Christ. It stayed within the limit of culture.