Dr. King used Gandhi's commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance. |
My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today. |
The United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world. |
One of the reasons I get so much joy out of my own children's childhoods is that I'm having my first childhood myself. |
How do you make things fair? |
National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country. |
We're not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we're not willing to give them first chances. |
If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up. |
James Brown became my father. He would talk to me the way a father talked to a son. He became the father I never had. |
The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country. |
I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn't mean anything. |
I've seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining. |
I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan. |
I was the first candidate to come out against this war, spoke at every anti-war march. |
Evangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House. |