Profits should be for a purpose. Profits should be productive. You should make money for producing benefits that make the world a better place. Making money is a good thing when it is made in...

My feeling is that you don’t go looking for troubles. The cross ought to find you. And so I never go out of my way. I figure I only get involved in things that I...

They are some of the best entry level jobs that are available to poor people. And they also make products available to the working poor.

I’m against voter fraud in any form, and I have long supported a national voter ID card. But ID cards need not – and must not – restrict voting rights in any way, shape or...

Influence is like a savings account. The less you use it, the more you’ve got.

Rosa Parks was the inspiration… simply by the act of her being who she was, a sweet and loving and simple child of God who refused to let anybody or anything force her to compromise...

Our Churches sought to do the same through teaching preaching missions, social and political action. We have always been a leader in progressive movements in faith, action, government and mission. But, I think we may...

I believe in humanitarian capitalism, and there are good people on Wall Street.

On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.

Why do we vote on Tuesday? Why don’t we vote on the weekend?.

What we forget is that African Americans made the largest contribution to America, economically, before the Civil War of any sector of society. I read that the railroads were worth about $2 billion, but slavery...

There were lots of smart black people at Harvard before Barack Obama, but none of them ever got to head up the law review. There has been a history of discrimination.

The pluses outweigh the minuses. They do give benefits, they do have health insurance.

To whom much is given, much is required – not expected, but required.

Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.

Centennial Olympic Park paved the way for the aquarium and the World of Coke. It laid out new possibilities for the city. And I think [the satellite development] is just getting started.

This is my first play.

I was raised that way: don’t get mad, get smart.

Our school systems have to realize that everybody doesn’t learn the same way, and no one learns without some emotional support.

If there was ever was a triumph of the human spirit, it was in the young people of Georgia, from Connecticut, from Kentucky, from England, from all over all over the world, who were victims...

Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it. -Andrew Young, author, civil rights activist, US congressman, mayor, and UN ambassador (b. 1932)

Nobody black had learned anything from the ‘Letter from the Birmingham Jail’ or from the ‘I Have a Dream’ speech. That was a revelation of white people.

Some kind of affirmative action is important in a democracy and for economic competitiveness and national security. The Army was the first to realize that you had to have desegregation of a military to have...

By ignoring the rural South and the inner cities and Hispanic markets, most businesses are ignoring the most lucrative market available on the face of the Earth.

Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.

Do not try to live your children’s lives out of your own frustrations.

We’re here to proclaim a victory. We’re here, not to wallow in tragedy, but to celebrate a triumph of the human spirit.

With this, I had to learn and develop a character over time.

Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That’s what I’ve been doing all my life.

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fool reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.

We rise in glory as we sink in pride.”

When people ask where I studied to be an ambassador, I say my neighborhood and my school. I’ve tried to tell my kids that you don’t wait until you’re in high school or college to...

Egypt’s problem is that you’ve got an economy that works for about 40 million people, only you have 90 million people. The answer to the Egyptian problem is not guns, but jobs. We’ve got to...

There is a sense in which the United States ambassador speaks to the United States, as well as for the United States. I have always seen my role as a thermostat rather than a thermometer....

I like to fight poverty. For almost 10 years, I’ve been using in my sermons the message that fighting poverty is good business, and I’ve used Wal-Mart as an example. The question is how do...

Most of my teachers wanted to send me to the principal’s office. But my fourth-grade teacher once put her arms around me and said, ‘You sure write well.’ And I’ve had good penmanship until this...

Everybody is determined by his own experience.

Martin’s real dream was to be a preacher at this church.

really helped bail out the civil-rights movement.

Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of every eligible voter.

We’ve changed in the sense that we flipped – and this is no longer the Republican party of Lincoln. This is the party of suppression.

You have to expect that if you cuss out the world, The world is going to cuss back.

Slavery didn’t break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.

Everybody in America has been dependent on the government at some time. We owe everybody in America the right to vote and access to capital. What I say is, let’s make America work, let’s make...

When I took the SAT, I didn’t get accepted into a single white school that I applied to. Now I’ve got honorary degrees from a lot of those schools that rejected me. Things are different...

That does a significant amount of damage to you. People have such negative opinions of politicians. They always assume politicians are guilty.

It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.

I tried. But not everybody thought so.

We say those who suffered here … your suffering is not in vain. We assure you that we, the children of the world, will learn new lessons. We will define the future, not hatred, not...

I was surprised and not surprised,