I have never cared too much what people say. What I am interested in is what they do.

We Americans have a chance to become someday a nation in which all racial stocks and classes can exist in their own selfhoods, but meet on a basis of respect and equality and live together, socially, economically, and politically.

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.

I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo.

Health is a human right, not a privilege to be purchased.

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

Be as bold as the first man or [woman] to eat an oyster.