And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people will get to the promised land

The greatness of our God lies in the fact that [He] is both tough minded and tender hearted.

There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we have the resources to get rid of it.

The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die

We must substitute courage for caution.

I admire the good samaritan, but I don't want to be one.I don't want to spend my life picking up people by the side of the road after they have been beaten up and robbed.I want to change the Jericho road, so that everybody has an opportunity for a job, education, security, health.

The softminded person always wants to freeze the moment and hold life in the gripping yoke of sameness.