If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
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What is the American dream? The American dream is one big tent. One big tent. And on that big tent you have four basic promises: equal protection under the law, equal opportunity, equal access, and fair share.
At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
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.
It is a historical error for those who were not there to just refer to August 28th as 'I Have a Dream' speech day. That is a real disservice to those who were there. It was a sad day. It was not a celebration environment.
When you create more small businesses, you create small entrepreneurship. Out of that comes self-determination and employment.
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.
Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
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.
America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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.
A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
While I've spent a lot of quality time with my children, perhaps it's not been enough.
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.
Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.
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.
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.
Urban America has been redlined. Government has not offered tax incentives for investment, as it has in a dozen foreign markets. Banks have redlined it. Industries have moved out, they've redlined it. Clearly, to break up the redlining process, there must be incentives to green-line with hedges against risk.
Many kids come out of college, they have a credit card and a diploma. They don't know how to buy a house or a car or health insurance or life insurance. They do not know basic microeconomics.
Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.
Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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