I think you don't support people based on one or two cases of situations. You deal with their balance over the long run.

As I ran for president, I hoped that one child would come out of the ghetto like I did, could look at me walk across the stage with governors and senators and know they didn't have to be a drug dealer, they didn't have to be a hoodlum, they didn't have to be a gangster. They could stand up from a broken home, on welfare, and they could run for president of the United States.

As a Baptist minister, I don't have the right to impose my views on anyone else. If committed gay and lesbian couples want to marry, that is their business; none of us should stand in their way

We must become the United States of America that represents every community, that represents every individual. And we will ultimately become a stronger nation, but right now we are a divided nation.

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

Dr. King used Gandhi's commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.

I haven't done the things I've done to be in a sitcom.