Each time a barrier falls for one person, the doors of opportunity open wider for every other American.

The crown jewel of Dr. King`s movement was to protect the right to vote for all citizens.

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.

There's great disparity between who goes to college and who goes to jail. Who lives long and who dies prematurely, is the defining issue of our time. And I submit to you, there's a significant race dimension, it is basically class-driven.

Politicians refuse to modernize schools, they cut out midnight basketball, but build all these new jails. First class jails, second class schools. This is zero tolerance.

No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there's no future in riots.

Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.