If a black doctor discovers a cure for cancer, ain't no hospital going to lock him out.

On the one hand, to suggest that white poll watchers are going to black communities threatening and provocative. On the other hand is to suggest that if that same line of vote is he also resists making a commitment to honor the winner of the campaign, that there is another agenda.

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.

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

We must face the No. 1 critical issue of our day. It is youth crime in general and black-on-black crime in particular. There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery. Then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved. After all we have been through, just to think we can't walk down our own streets, how humiliating.

Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.

From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.