When we were hit on 9/11 it took us a few weeks to get the coalition together because [George] Bush had come in with a kind of narrow ideology, looking at the world, I'd say, through a keyhole and not through a door.

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.

You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.

Those who have the most wealth and the most property, their children have the first, the best, and the most.

If the states had to vote on slavery, we would have lost the vote.

Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.

When we were hit on 9/11 it took us a few weeks to get the coalition together because [George] Bush had come in with a kind of narrow ideology, looking at the world, I'd say, through a keyhole and not through a door.