I preach nonviolence because it's the better alternative.

Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.

So much talent comes from the base of poverty and those in the margins. You limit the base, you miss too much talent.

I'm not wasting my time with any more non-straight-talking candidates.

No lie can live forever.

My very first recollection of life on earth was waking up in bed with my mother, and she was showing me a picture of my father, Charles Jackson, with a group of soldiers.

If you don't feel apologetic for slavery, if you don't feel apologetic for colonialism, if you feel proud of it then say that.