Your children need your presence more than your presents.

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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.

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We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.

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Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.

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My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

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I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it's time for you to send it back to me-toasted and buttered on both sides.

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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy sweat will get you change.

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Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow-red, yellow, brown, black and white-and we're all precious in God's sight.

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From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation. (Funeral oration for Martin Luther King, Sr.)

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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.

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