The first thing that has to happen is the protection of voting rights and registration.

I take my role seriously as a pastor.

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.

I preach nonviolence because it's the better alternative.

In order for an ideal to become a reality, there must be a person, a personality to translate it.

Gangs are a group reaction to helplessness.

You are not going to revive the unemployment of 26 million Americans with tax cuts.