When you're dealing with boycotts, you don't need everyone. You just need enough to be effective.

I've seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.

We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.

We must become the United States of America that represents every community, that represents every individual. And we will ultimately become a stronger nation, but right now we are a divided nation.

America has to make America become a better place for all Americans, and that`s all of us participating.

My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.

It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That's where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts. We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn't get the mule. So we decided we'd ride this donkey as far as it would take us.