The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.

You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.

If the right wing has their way and state's rights control voting rights, they would remove protections that make it difficult for seniors to vote. It would be harder for students to vote on campus. These are attempts to suppress acts of voting.

The American people on the ground need a clearer, stronger, Lyndon B. Johnson-type voice from their president.

In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.

It'll be a great day when the seniors have all the baseball caps they need and the Pentagon bombs Gilligan's Island.

The trouble is that nonviolence is so often defined as refusal to fight, and that is the American definition of cowardice. In fact, marching unarmed against the guns and dogs of the police requires more courage than does aggression. The perverted idea of manhood coming from the barrel of a gun is what keeps people from understanding nonviolence.