“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.”

“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...”

“Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”

“Politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth.”

“Immer wieder behauptete Unwahrheiten werden nicht zu Wahrheiten, sondern, was schlimmer ist, zu Gewohnheiten.”