Obama used to be a community organizer. He knows how to build communities.
We reveal our joys and successes, we conceal our pain.
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
There is no power in cynicism. There is no forward thrust in cynicism.
Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
At the end of the day, we're defined by our predicament, not by the sides of town.
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.
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.
Many are observing Ferguson and witnessing the anger, demonstrations, looting and vandalism and calling for quiet. But quiet isn't enough. The absence of noise isn't the presence of justice - and we must demand justice in Ferguson and the other 'Fergusons' around America.
When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.
Life has its dimensions in the mysterious.
Watch the walls come down, whether it's in the South or on Wall Street. When the walls come down, what do we find? More markets, more talent, more capital and growth. Which means that the race and sex discrimination stunt economic growth. It's not good for capitalism. It's not good for America's growth. And it's not morally right.
There have been more people disenfranchised in Washington than there have been in Kuwait.
When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.
Those powers that control the tent are not threatened at all by any activity that you engage in, in the shadows, that's not moving toward the tent. And I am rather convinced that we have a generation that is so preoccupied with life in the shadows, they never even focus on getting to the sunlight where you open up the big tent.
I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
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.
The law protects you from being abused. It doesn't threaten your lifestyle for someone else to have the right to exhibit their lifestyle.
Music of all arts should be expansive and inclusive.
Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.