We're not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we're not willing to give them first chances.

We blacks had problems in the '60s and we solved them by marching. We've still got problems - let's march.

Let me just say that we are under the consent decree. There are people in our city [Baltimore] along with the police department and advocates who believe that this is absolutely the right thing to do.

The Baltimore Police Department had engaged in a pattern of practice of conduct that violated the constitution and federal law, and this conduct had eroded trust and to deprive the people of Baltimore of the rights and the protections guaranteed to every American.

My ministry's always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.

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

I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.