There is always a very delicate interplay between individual actions and institutional conditions.

Justice is what love looks like in public.

I was blessed to be part of a commercial, pushing for this energy bill, but we've been unsuccessful.

Anybody who takes Martin Luther King seriously has got to go beyond the standard understanding of who he was, has to connect those dots.

All you have is a gift a to give.

Larry Summers, I think, he had a long history of arrogance and relative ignorance about poor people's culture and working people's culture and so forth.

Part of the popularity with Louis Farrakhan has less to do with the content of his message and more to do with the form that he portrays himself - as being a free, black person who speaks what is on his mind with boldness and fearlessness. Who is willing to pay the consequences.