We picked their cotton. We cooked their food. We nursed their babies. Now we can run their cities. We can run their states. We will run the country.

Race designation is a political designation.

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

Humanitarian appeals always help. They penetrate deeper than political tradeoffs.

There was a direct jobs program from the Rooselvelt administration in the 1930s. The Justice Department has set up a task force to investigate the banks and the mortgage crisis but that's a little too late. Whenever they report they will report the obvious. It will be too late to impact the people who need the help the most.

At the end of the day, we're defined by our predicament, not by the sides of town.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.