Politicians refuse to modernize schools, they cut out midnight basketball, but build all these new jails. First class jails, second class schools. This is zero tolerance.

In Afghanistan, there is a plan to build democracy; hundreds of thousands of troops are protecting it. There is a plan to rebuild and reconstruct there. But many thousands of Americans die from violence and poverty every year and we don't have a plan for reconstruction at home.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

If you don't feel apologetic for slavery, if you don't feel apologetic for colonialism, if you feel proud of it then say that.

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

We are facing a stiff wind right now, but if we persist and keep fighting back, we will prevail.

There have been more people disenfranchised in Washington than there have been in Kuwait.