The only time you should look down at someone, is when you are helping them up.

When everyone is included, everyone wins.

Ronald Reagan was older than I was when he ran for president.

America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.

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

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

I'm a Third World person. I grew up in an occupied zone [Greenville, South Carolina] and had to negotiate with the superpower, really the colonial power.