Clem (Clementa Pinckney) understood that justice grows out of recognition of ourselves, in each other.

When friends are in trouble, America Helps.

I think that the issues we have with science these days are not restricted to what's happening with respect to religion. There are a lot of very religious scientists around.

You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.

I can't even get a credit card without three credit bureaus saying I'm good enough.

In November [2016], Americans are gonna have to make a decision about what we care about and who we are. We get these spasms of politics around immigration and fearmongering and then our traditions and our history and our better impulses kick in. That's how we all ended up here. 'Cause I guarantee you at some point every one of us has somebody in our background who people didn't want coming here. And yet here we are.

We are greater than the sum of our individual ambitions