We are intent on building a movement. The next step is grassroots town meetings. We must keep alive the dialogue around the covenants.

Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.

Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse.

There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price for living a lie.

A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open, honest dialogue.

It takes unbelievable spiritual courage, moral fortitude, to engage in militant nonviolence.

I don't draw any distinctions between forms of bigotry or forms of ideology that lose sight of the humanity of people. I can't stand white supremacy. I can't stand male supremacy. I can't stand imperial subjugation. I can't stand homophobia.