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.
We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.
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.
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.
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 basic microeconomics.
We have to judge politicians by their cumulative score. In one innings they make a great catch, in another they drop the ball. In one they score a home run, in another they strike out. But it is their...
Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.
Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
Many are observing Ferguson and witnessing the anger, demonstrations, looting and vandalism and calling for quiet. But quiet isn't enough. The absence of noise isn't the presence of justice - and we m...
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.
Hold your head high stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes but morning comes. ... Keep hope alive.
At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
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.
Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
I'm too mature to be angry.
If my mind can conceive it, My heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it!
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...
A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.
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...