Statehood for the District of Columbia is the most important civil rights and social justice issue in America today.

We reveal our joys and successes, we conceal our pain.

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.

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

Sometimes arrogance makes us overreach. George Bush Jr. often tries to suggest the leaders of other countries, and it is just not good diplomacy.

Your house is your first small business. It's where your investment is and [where] our greatest asset is.

It's not enough to be quiet. Quietness is the absence of noise. We need peace, the presence of justice and to be - and so people here can coexist and live together.