Our goal was not freedom. Freedom was the necessary prerequisite to get to equality.

The fact is in a city like Chicago, for example, unemployment in the black community is around 20 percent for adults, 35 percent for youth, they bail out the banks, public schools, there is a deep divide. We need a plan for reconstruction and redevelopment and I hope that - police are the gatekeepers but behind that gate are these problems of disparities and injustice.

Abortion is black genocide...What happens to the mind of a person and the moral fabric of a nation that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience?

We must never surrender. America will get better and better. Keep hope alive. Keep hope alive.

There are clear patterns of discrimination against Blacks and Latinos. The big banks targeted Blacks and Latinos with toxic packages of subprime predatory lending.

We are facing a stiff wind right now, but if we persist and keep fighting back, we will prevail.

No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high.