To allow injustice and inequality invites a Ferguson to your community. We must stand together, black, white, brown, red, and yellow and fight for justice and equality for all. It’s the only way to avoid...

We’ve been so preoccupied with getting the government to behave in a fair and democratic way, we were not able to focus on the private sector where most of the jobs are, where most of...

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.

There’s great disparity between who goes to college and who goes to jail. Who lives long and who dies prematurely, is the defining issue of our time. And I submit to you, there’s a significant...

The relationship between the prophet and the President, the priest and the President, is a sacred one.

I have worked hard to build relationships between Jewish people and black people.

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.

Many have fought for and even lost their lives to end segregation, to win the right to vote. It disappoints me to now have to cajole people to register and to vote.

The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.

Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They’re free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press.

When you create more small businesses, you create small entrepreneurship. Out of that comes self-determination and employment.

We blacks were the first people embracing Obama, long before the people at expensive fundraisers were supporting him. We gave him his first love, 96 percent of blacks voted for him in 2008. Yet today...

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.

Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.

There have been more people disenfranchised in Washington than there have been in Kuwait.

When they wrote the Constitution, only white male landowners had the right to vote.

Ronald Reagan was older than I was when he ran for president.

When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.

So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it’s uniform color versus skin color. We have – we’ve overcome that level of racial fear.

The laws are stacked for the wealthy.

I mean, the fight for a health care bill to cover all Americans and leave none behind is attacked as being a race appeal, which is not true, but then it’s put out in the...