We do not owe allegiance to any candidate because they share our party or our color, but because they share our principles and our conscience.

The right to vote is the right upon which all of our rights are leveraged - and without which none can be protected.

With all the other -isms that we deal with, that sort of nameless -ism that we have in too many of our hearts against the poor in this country is what wounds us most broadly.

In this nation, the greatest of all nations, there are no second-class families. That is our great American conviction.

As an American people, what is greatest about our history are the many times we have led this world away from hate, towards hope.

Last century we needed lawyers; this century we need big, broad coalitions. When extremists decide to attack all our communities, they must hope that there will be infighting. But we have stood all for one and one for all. That is how we will win.