The future is not a gift: it is an achievement. Every generation helps make its own future. This is the essential challenge of the present

I run because I am convinced that this country is on a perilous course and I have such strong feelings about what must be done.

Victims of the violence are black and white, rich and poor, young and old, famous and unknown. They are most important of all, human beings whom other human beings loved and needed.

After all, a bank without assets is hardly a bank at all.

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary and there are people in distress.

Courage is the most important attribute of a lawyer.

The road toward equality of freedom is not easy, and great cost and danger march alongside us. We are committed to peaceful and nonviolent change, and that is important for all to understand - though all change is unsettling. Still, even in the turbulence of protest and struggle is greater hope for the future, as men learn to claim and achieve for themselves the rights formerly petitioned from others.