Materialism alone will not fulfill the possibilities of your existence.

They battled for America's soul, that shed blood, that endured taunts and torment, and in some cases gave the full measure of their devotion.

There is an empathy gap. There is a gap in terms of sympathizing for the folks in New Orleans.

I stand on the shoulders of giants.

If you want to change the world, the change has to happen with you first.

We've still got a lot of economic rights that have to be dealt with.

Better is not good enough. Until we have absolute equality in this country, we must continue to work.

We are in the presence today of a lot of Moseses. We're in the presence today of giants whose shoulders we stand on.

It is because they marched that I stand before you here today.

The principles of equality that were set forth and were battled for have to be fought each and every day.

The time has come for us to seize those opportunities.

It is far too dangerous to have nuclear weapons in the hands of a radical theocracy.