We campaigned across the South . . . without a single catcall or boo. It was not until we got north to New York that we began to hear this from Koch, President Reagan, and then Mrs. Ferraro . . . . Some people are making hysteria while I'm making history.

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.

It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life.

Those who have the most wealth and the most property, their children have the first, the best, and the most.

When you create more small businesses, you create small entrepreneurship. Out of that comes self-determination and employment.

So much talent comes from the base of poverty and those in the margins. You limit the base, you miss too much talent.

What's good for the very rich might not be good for anybody but them.