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

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

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

Nelson Mandela sat in a South African prison for 27 years. He was nonviolent. He negotiated his way out of jail. His honor and suffering of 27 years in a South African prison is really ultimately what brought about the freedom of South Africa. That is nonviolence.

We must eliminate the gulf of mistrust and ignorance that keeps us from learning from each other.

If Martin [Luther King, Jr.]'s philosophy had been embraced and lived out in Iraq and other places, we wouldn't have bin Ladens.

Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.