"In politics, an organized minority is a political majority."

"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."

"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."

"Keep hope alive!"

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

"Your children need your presence more than your presents."