My ministry's always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.

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.

The Democratic Party hasn't whipped anybody into a frenzy. The assumption is that the people that are marching and protesting and standing up against this don't have enough sense to stand up for their own interests.

The Baltimore Police Department had engaged in a pattern of practice of conduct that violated the constitution and federal law, and this conduct had eroded trust and to deprive the people of Baltimore of the rights and the protections guaranteed to every American.

James Brown lives, as long as someone steps out of their body and dances uncontrollably.

I've seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.

We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.