Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.

Every gift contains a danger. Whatever gift we have we are compelled to express. And if the expression of that gift is blocked, distorted, or merely allowed to languish, then the gift turns against us, and we suffer.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.

I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.