To stand still is to regress.

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.

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.

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.

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.

You feel most fulfilled when your actions are filled with meaning. Find meaning to find yourself.

You can't understand a city without using its public transportation system.

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

I don’t like people who are late.

My kindness is my weakness but my weakness is my biggest strength.

Whatever else the Book of Mormon makes clear, it makes clear that every soul in every dispensation is precious to God, and therefore no age or era was-or is-left without its witness of Christ.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Vex not thy spirit at the course of things; they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen in life.

Your problem is not that you are too busy; your problem is that you don't own your situation.

Save me, Shahara. Save me from the lonely nights that never end. (Syn)