trying to alert random text instead of numbers

Doing a random generator that random the different options you put in, i've tried to make it alert the number of the option wich worked, but i want it to alert the text chosen instead of the number. below is my jQuery code

$(document).ready(function() {
    $('#val').click(function() {
        var toAdd = $("input[name=message]").val();
        $('#messages').append("<p>"+toAdd+"</p>");
    });
    $('#kor').click(function() {
       var random = Math.floor((Math.random()*$("#messages>p").length)+1);

        alert(random);

    });
});