I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.

I remember the president-elect [Donald Trump] saying that I`m going to do something to dramatically, positively change communities, particularly in urban areas, and I think we`ve got to hold his feet to the fire to all those issues as well as all the issues that you addressed, you and many others addressed yesterday as it relates to criminal justice, as it relates to voting oppression.

I think first of all, the United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world.

We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.

I've never seen an effective boycott that didn't work.

John Lewis we all know was beaten terribly, almost to an inch of his life, opened doors that will never be closed, although there are forces that are attempting to close those doors.

If a cop sees a person running out of a store with a gun he's seeing a crime. He's not seeing a person standing.