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.

If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.

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

America has to make America become a better place for all Americans, and that`s all of us participating.

We need to make some real fundamental change from the Constitution down in this country.

America can't work for only some people and become a dream for all people. It has to work for everyone. And even though everyone might not end up at the same place, if everyone starts with the same beginning, then that's the dream fulfilled. We all don't have the same abilities, but we should have the same opportunities.

My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.