Workers, black and white, need some kind of international affirmative action to protect them from unfair competition with unorganized or slave labor abroad and unfair competition with robots at home.

It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.

From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.

If a black doctor discovers a cure for cancer, ain't no hospital going to lock him out.

How can you have in our country that is based upon liberality and liberation, be so anti-liberal. That's toxic waste to our consciousness. It's hard to be an American conservative because that's a contradiction in terms. Now if you take away freedom of speech, freedom of press, freedom of protest, and lock people out based upon their race, their language and their religion, that's conservative and fascist. America is a liberal idea.

You cannot teach what you don't know. You cannot give energy if you're not on fire on the inside.

People internalize, from the jail to student loan debt, to credit card debt, to unemployment to the whole collective. It manifests itself in many ways, in people's home lives, domestic stuff.