The measure of a country's greatness is its ability to retain compassion in time of crisis.

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi... has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for.

Our Constitution is the envy of the world, as it should be for it is the grand design of the finest nation on earth.

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.

The measure of a country's greatness is its ability to retain compassion in time of crisis.