I was blessed to go abroad and bring Americans home from jail in Syria, and Iraq, and Cuba, and Yugoslavia, and Liberia, those are high moments of my life.

When Blacks got the right to vote, white women got the right to sit on juries.

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

If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.

The solution [to a crisis pregnancy] is not to kill the innocent baby but to deal with the mother's values and her attitudes toward life.

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

You really need a renewed commitment for the direct investment of jobs at the bottom.