Those powers that control the tent are not threatened at all by any activity that you engage in, in the shadows, that's not moving toward the tent. And I am rather convinced that we have a generation that is so preoccupied with life in the shadows, they never even focus on getting to the sunlight where you open up the big tent.

The only justification we have to look down on someone is because we are about to pick him up.

The invasion only made matters worse. The occupation will not work, Iraq is unoccupiable, that will not work.

A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.

I'm too mature to be angry.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

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.