Fighting disparities is very significant.

You know, people'd always ask "Why is Jesse Jackson running for the White House?" They never seen the house I'm running from.

In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.

Pictures can live in one's memory. That's why they are important.

I was blessed to go abroad and bring Americans home from jail in Syria, and Iraq, and Cuba, and Yugoslavia, and Liberia, those are high moments of my life.

Statehood for the District of Columbia is the most important civil rights and social justice issue in America today.

The Black public sector middle class teachers, policeman, firemen, and post office workers, those jobs have been on the decline but there hasn't been a corresponding increase in the private sector. What is especially painful is government policy bailed out the banks without making them make reinvestments for rebuilding. The result is 53-million Americans are food insecure, 50-million Americans are in poverty, 44 million are on food stamps, 26 million are looking for a job.