People in the age of [President] Obama don't dress like they did in the age of [Lyndon] Johnson. That's for sure.

This is not just an agreement for the police department, this is an agreement that gets the police department working with the community and the community understanding its role as it continues to work with the police department.

I think that any time you look at the fact that boycotts have historically led to change, whatever temporary inconvenience there may be, it in the long run leads toward, in my opinion, a better change for everybody.

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

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.

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.