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...

Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.

Humanitarian appeals always help. They penetrate deeper than political tradeoffs.

It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.

I hear that melting-pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven’t melted.

Look at the coded language the Right is using against President Barack Obama. Openly calling him a liar in Congress, saying he is ‘not a Christian, he was not born here, he is not one...

A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.

Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God’s children.

Any attempt to dilute my support for Sen. Obama will not succeed.