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

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

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 media as true.

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.

Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.

Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.

From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.

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

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.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.

America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.

If you run, you might lose. If you don't run, you're guaranteed to lose.

Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.

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

I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.

I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.

When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.

In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.

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

We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

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.

George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.

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

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

If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.

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.

Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.

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.

Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.

We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.

Keep hope alive!

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.

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

A man who cannot be enticed by money or intimidated by the threat of jail or death has two of the strongest weapons that anyone has to offer.

America needs young people to be inspired to choose sacrifice over greed.

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

At least the politicians are accountable to the voters.

At the end of the day, we're defined by our predicament, not by the sides of town.

Black and Jewish leaders have been a coalition of conscience.

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

Conservatives and liberals can find common ground.

Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf.

Fighting disparities is very significant.

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, I concluded that someone needed to run and challenge the liberal orthodoxy.

I had gained a greater appreciation of hearing the concerns of woman, doctors, and so many others.

I had to steal to survive.

I know how to run a nationally paced campaign.