Democracy is not a mathematical deduction proved once and for all time. Democracy is a just faith fervently held, commitment to be tested again and again in the fiery furnace of history.

The only thing I can do is tell the truth as I see it and let the chips fall where they may.

There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.

All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.

Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.

The chance to own a home; chance to own an education; chance to get access to capital. This is the real civil rights battle of the twenty-first century.

Lately the First Amendment has been interpreted to deny equal protection of the law to those who believe in God. The Constitution established freedom for religion, not freedom from religion!