Any time things appear to be going better, you have overlooked something.

When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.

Defeat should not be the source of discouragement, but a stimulus to keep plotting.

Rhetoric never won a revolution yet.

I stand before you today as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the presidency of the United States. I am not the candidate of black America, although I am black and proud. I'm not the candidate of the women's movement of this country, although I am a woman, and I'm equally proud of that. I am not the candidate of any political bosses or fat cats or special interests... I am the candidate of the people...

I am and always will be a catalyst for change.

My God, what do we want? What does any human being want? Take away an accident of pigmentation of a thin layer of our outer skin and there is no difference between me and anyone else. All we want is for that trivial difference to make no difference.