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

When the civil rights community raised a lot of concerns around the nomination of Mr. Sessions, Senator Sessions, one of the things was that he`s on record of saying things intrusive, like voting rights,that he doesn`t believe the federal government should interfere with local policing, almost like states` rights kind of rhetoric.

I've never seen a prosecutor hold a press conference to discredit the victim.

I'm a patriot in the truest sense of the word.

What’s wrong with denouncing white interlopers?

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

We blacks had problems in the '60s and we solved them by marching. We've still got problems - let's march.