If the states had to vote on slavery, we would have lost the vote.

No lie can live forever.

The wiping out of millions of homes took away Black and Brown wealth. It drove poverty, it drove unemployment, it drove people to food stamps.

Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn't make it a biscuit.

The first thing that has to happen is the protection of voting rights and registration.

We blacks were the first people embracing Obama, long before the people at expensive fundraisers were supporting him. We gave him his first love, 96 percent of blacks voted for him in 2008. Yet today we are the number one in unemployment, with 16 percent of American blacks out of work.

has done a great job walking a thin line between revenge and remedy.