I spent many years working for voting rights, but we still see sophisticated efforts, led by white officials, to disenfranchise black voters in local and national elections.

My parents taught me that racial prejudice is a sin, one that robs the world of great minds and talents.

My entire life has been devoted to breaking down barriers, to finding common ground.

Labels applied to people of any race are inherently offensive.

Election victories are a harvest. You plant the seed. For months or years, you water and tend them. In the election season, you reap the harvest.

Politics is not a tea party. When it is time to act, you have to move fast and decisively.

You can't say the negro left the Republican party; the negro feels he was evicted from the Republican party.

In elective politics, it's up or out. You go up the ladder, or you get out of the game.

To stand still is to regress.

Historically we have rejected extremism on the left and the right. Centrism is the right course for America.

The member of Congress who forgets his constituents' needs usually serves only one term.

No matter wherever you are, share your joy to make this world joyful and better.

Victory honours the brave.

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to earth.

No task is a long one but the task on which one dare not start. It becomes a nightmare.

I immediately noticed there were far more male characters than female characters in the programs, even now, in the 21st century.

Everything will be difficult, if there's no dream

True love is mixed up with birdlike squabbles, in which the disputants wound each other to the quick; but a quarrel without animus is, on the contrary, apiece of flattery to the dupe's conceit.

Do your best every day. Live each day as if it's your masterpiece.

Tonglen dissolves your solid sense of "I'm the wise person, I'm going to help this poor, unfortunate loser."

To win the big games you must get to the Free Throw line, and then you must make them.