The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house.

If I use the media, even with tricks, to publicize a black youth being shot in the back in Teaneck, New Jersey... then I should be praised for it, and it's more of a comment on them than me that it would take tricks to make them cover the loss of life.

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

I've seen too much in life to give up.

I think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.

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

When we look back at the last years of justice department, some of the most important work that will define its legacy is the work that was done to address the problem of policing reform. Almost two dozen investigations across the country over the last eight years into - not just Baltimore, but Chicago and Baltimore and New Orleans.