Black and Jewish leaders have been a coalition of conscience.

You cannot have a diplomatic offensive without talking.

In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.

Humanitarian appeals always help. They penetrate deeper than political tradeoffs.

I mean, the fight for a health care bill to cover all Americans and leave none behind is attacked as being a race appeal, which is not true, but then it's put out in the media as true.

Capitalism without capital is just an ism.

I must oppose the use of federal funds for a policy of killing infants.