You can cage the singer but not the song.

To really know what progress we’re making for children, we have to know how many children we have to begin with. The simple act of counting is an expression of a country’s intent to take care of its people.

Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.

Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere.

In the gun game, we are the most hunted. The river of blood that washes the streets of our nation flows mostly from the bodies of our black children.

Art in its highest form is art that serves and instructs society and human development.

As a matter of fact, compromise is what oppression feeds on.