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.

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 more Fergusons.

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

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'm too mature to be angry.

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

I think reconciliation is Obama's goal - but the fight with the Republicans is like a fight with pit bulls, they never let go. Even worse, now the Republicans feel they can keep pushing and he will keep giving. They have not seen a stiff resistance on his part.

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

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 of us.' That makes addressing such issues trickier for the first African-American in the White House.

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

We reveal our joys and successes, we conceal our pain.

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 talent and growth. The same is true in the tech industry.

If the states had to vote on slavery, we would have lost the vote.

If you think black people have a motivation problem, open up a Wal-Mart and advertise a thousand jobs. Watch 5,000 people show up.

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

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

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

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.

The coffers are full of money and equipment for the Ferguson Police and the Missouri National Guard to put down a potential uprising, but no money for actually uplifting the people of Ferguson, St. Louis, Missouri and around the nation.

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

I take my role seriously as a pastor.

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

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

For me, Barack Obama's election was a milestone of the most extraordinary kind. On the day he was elected I felt such hope in my heart. I thought we were seeing the beginning of a new era of equal opportunity across race and gender such as America had never known before.

I had to steal to survive.

We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together.

Black and Jewish leaders have been a coalition of conscience.

Most blacks will argue that they excel because of hard work, because of intellect, determination, sweat, blood, tears and risk.

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

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 up the redlining process, there must be incentives to green-line with hedges against risk.

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 race dimension, it is basically class-driven.

You may choose your mate, but you cannot deny someone else the right to choose their mate.

There's a full-court press to put down an uprising around Ferguson, but no preparation for lifting up the people there.

I am a journalist.

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

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.

When journalists and politicians speak of a dwindling middle class that's under economic assault and a poor community that's getting bigger, they're talking about Ferguson. Independent of the racial demographics and dynamics of Ferguson, Missouri, there's a 'Ferguson' near you.

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

Conservatives and liberals can find common ground.

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

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

We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together. That is the new challenge of the new world... learning to co-exist and not co-annihilate.

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

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.

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

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.

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 cumulative batting average that we are interested in.

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

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

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