Money is necessary -- both to support a family and to advance causes one believes in.

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

Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.

When aroused the American conscience is a powerful force for reform.

We have a lot more work to do in our common struggle against bigotry and discrimination. I say "common struggle" because I believe very strongly that all forms of bigotry and discrimination are equally wrong and should be opposed by right-thinking Americans everywhere. Freedom from discrimination based on sexual orientation is surely a fundamental human right in any great democracy, as much as freedom from racial, religious, gender, or ethnic discrimination.

Without Coretta Scott King, there would not have been a Martin Luther King, Jr. in the way that we know him.

The greatest violence is seeing a child go to bed hungry.