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

I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.

When we take out school psychologists, truant officers, counselors, art, music, and athletics, and bring in the police, the school gets turned into a feeder system for the penal system.

Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.

The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt.

While I've spent a lot of quality time with my children, perhaps it's not been enough.

I preach nonviolence because it's the better alternative.