So much has to do with going beyond treating black people as cosmetic and symbolic items, as opposed to genuine personalities and human beings. And that is a deep moral and spiritual issue, which can of course be backed up by Civil Rights Commissions which enforce the laws against any form of discrimination.

I am excited to have a black president because white supremacy is real and it needs to be shattered.

Try to just be true to ourselves, whoever we are, but willing to grow, even as we're true to ourselves.

To get up in the morning & do the monumental tasks that face us, our labor is best fueled by love.

I am not optimistic, but I've never been optimistic about humankind or America. The evidence never looks good in terms of forces for good actually becoming prominent.

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

Martin Luther King was an extremist of love.