Justice is never advanced in the taking of human life.

A constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages is a form of gay bashing and it would do nothing at all to protect traditional marriages.

It's going to take an act of Congress to deal with poverty and hunger, not only in this country, but throughout the world. We have the resources but we don't have the will.

Because Dr. King was human and not divine - although we think he was divine, he was just a man, an extraordinary man, but a man - and he would get depressed from time to time and disappointed about all kinds of things relative to the movement.

It doesn't matter how strong your opinions are. If you don't use your power for positive change, you are, indeed, part of the problem.

We have to launch a national campaign against homophobia in the black community.

Women, in general, are not part of the corruption of the past, so they can give a new kind of leadership, a new image for mankind.