Many kids come out of college, they have a credit card and a diploma. They don’t know how to buy a house or a car or health insurance or life insurance. They do not know...

People internalize, from the jail to student loan debt, to credit card debt, to unemployment to the whole collective. It manifests itself in many ways, in people’s home lives, domestic stuff.

So many bright stars, bright in life, burn out quickly.

Those who have the most wealth and the most property, their children have the first, the best, and the most.

There is no power in cynicism. There is no forward thrust in cynicism.

Those companies that don’t see the black and brown communities are missing, out of their closed eye, talent, which leads to money and growth. When baseball, football and basketball couldn’t see the field, they missed...

I remember being taught my place.

Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.

In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.

Statehood for the District of Columbia is the most important civil rights and social justice issue in America today.

Fighting disparities is very significant.

While I’ve spent a lot of quality time with my children, perhaps it’s not been enough.

I came to the conclusion that in order to end racial barriers, I needed to run for the office of the president and put forth an agenda of social justice and world peace. In addition,...

So much talent comes from the base of poverty and those in the margins. You limit the base, you miss too much talent.

You can be out of slavery and have the right to vote, but unless you have access to capital, industry and technology, you can’t fulfill your dreams.

Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.

To allow injustice and inequality invites a Ferguson to your community. We must stand together, black, white, brown, red, and yellow and fight for justice and equality for all. It’s the only way to avoid...

We’ve been so preoccupied with getting the government to behave in a fair and democratic way, we were not able to focus on the private sector where most of the jobs are, where most of...

No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.

There’s great disparity between who goes to college and who goes to jail. Who lives long and who dies prematurely, is the defining issue of our time. And I submit to you, there’s a significant...

The relationship between the prophet and the President, the priest and the President, is a sacred one.

I have worked hard to build relationships between Jewish people and black people.

In many ways, history is marked as ‘before’ and ‘after’ Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.

Many have fought for and even lost their lives to end segregation, to win the right to vote. It disappoints me to now have to cajole people to register and to vote.

The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.

Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They’re free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press.

When you create more small businesses, you create small entrepreneurship. Out of that comes self-determination and employment.

We blacks were the first people embracing Obama, long before the people at expensive fundraisers were supporting him. We gave him his first love, 96 percent of blacks voted for him in 2008. Yet today...

I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it’s time for you to send it back to me – toasted and buttered on both sides.

Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.

There have been more people disenfranchised in Washington than there have been in Kuwait.

When they wrote the Constitution, only white male landowners had the right to vote.

Ronald Reagan was older than I was when he ran for president.

When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.

So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it’s uniform color versus skin color. We have – we’ve overcome that level of racial fear.

The laws are stacked for the wealthy.

I mean, the fight for a health care bill to cover all Americans and leave none behind is attacked as being a race appeal, which is not true, but then it’s put out in the...

Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.

Humanitarian appeals always help. They penetrate deeper than political tradeoffs.

It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.

I hear that melting-pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven’t melted.

Look at the coded language the Right is using against President Barack Obama. Openly calling him a liar in Congress, saying he is ‘not a Christian, he was not born here, he is not one...

A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.

Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God’s children.

Any attempt to dilute my support for Sen. Obama will not succeed.

A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.

Urban America has been redlined. Government has not offered tax incentives for investment, as it has in a dozen foreign markets. Banks have redlined it. Industries have moved out, they’ve redlined it. Clearly, to break...

If you don’t feel apologetic for slavery, if you don’t feel apologetic for colonialism, if you feel proud of it then say that.

Republicans are the party of ‘no,’ and Democrats are the party of ‘don’t know’ because it hasn’t fought for bold ideas, policies, or plans to turn us in a new direction.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.