What's good for the very rich might not be good for anybody but them.

You may choose your mate, but you cannot deny someone else the right to choose their mate.

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

When they wrote the Constitution, only white male landowners had the right to vote.

I think reconciliation is Obama's goal - but the fight with the Republicans is like a fight with pit bulls, they never let go. Even worse, now the Republicans feel they can keep pushing and he will keep giving. They have not seen a stiff resistance on his part.

The crown jewel of Dr. King`s movement was to protect the right to vote for all citizens.

When I first went to jail in 1960 with seven classmates trying to use their public library against the backdrop of my father being a veteran of World War II, not being able to use - having to sit behind Nazi on American military bases, I lost my fear of jails and death.