I've never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known.

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.

I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.

Don't talk to us like we ignint!

But resist we much. We must and we will much about that be committed.

National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.

We won`t back down! We won`t be trumped!