You can't get a solution if you won't talk to the people that have the problem. You can't ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.

The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico, Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior. We cannot look at the Latino community and preach 'one language.' No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.

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

I disagree with Muhammad. I'm against hate, anti-Semitism and homophobia. This is not a village of hate. It's a village of hope. Don't let midgets give us a bad name. There are still giants in Harlem, giants who will stand up for our children.

I think that you can't choose leadership. You have to deal with the leadership that the people respond to.

I feel that it is our moral obligation to stand and to be courageous with these families, and particularly Cindy, that have become the conscience of this nation.

So we want to make sure that happens is that we build a relationship with the police department and the community that results in better policing and better cooperation with the community.