“If we stand passively by while the centre of each city becomes a hive of depravation, crime and hopelessnessif we become two people, the suburban affluent and the urban poor, each filled with mistr...”

“Already a congressman, to a mentor "I hope sometime you run across something you think I can do well 24 hours per day.”

“The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources--because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.”

“Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact.”

“We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.”

“Negro poverty is not white poverty. Many of its causes and many of its cures are the same. But there are differences - deep, corrosive, obstinate differences - radiating painful roots into the comm...”

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”

“All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings theres too much corruption in the world ”

“Its only when youre at the bottom of the ladder that you ascend.”

“She shook off the self-recrimination. What-ifs and could-have-beens were not the way to move forward. She knew that from experience.”

“When your bright future, becomes a dull regret of the past, take a deep breath and move on.”

“Sooner or later we've all got to let go of our past.”