Dr. King's general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.

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

So (if) some cracker come and tell you 'Well, my mother and father blood go back to the Mayflower,' you better hold your pocket. That ain't nothing to be proud of. That means their forefathers was crooks.

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.

This is not just an agreement for the police department, this is an agreement that gets the police department working with the community and the community understanding its role as it continues to work with the police department.

Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls.

What’s wrong with denouncing white interlopers?