“Too many of us still believe our differences define us.”

“We will stand up for what is right, for what is fair and what is just. Health care is a right and not a privilege.”

“There's nothing wrong with a little agitation for what's right or what's fair.”

“Sensible people have got to work together.”

“We must be headlights and not taillights.”

“Who makes and keeps the Jew or the Negro base, who but you, who exclude them from the rights which others enjoy?”

“He hath disgrac'd me and hind'red me half a million; laugh'd at my losses, mock'd at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated my enemies. And what's his reason? I am a Jew.”

“When I was in high school if you were black and lived in Detroit, and you wanted to drive down to Florida to go on vacation, you had to plan to drive all the way through, because you couldn't stop in a hotel all the way through South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia. We can't even fathom such a thing now, can we?”