Sensible people have got to work together.

The last thing we want is a monolithic viewpoint where six people are standing before a president saying the same thing over and over again.

Many of us in Nashville accepted nonviolence as a way of life, a way of living, not simply as a technique or a tactic.

We have so many issues today that we need to confront. Comprehensive immigration reform. We have to solve the issue of poverty, the issue of hunger, the issue of war - spending billions of dollars to kill rather than to build. We have to deal with the fact that all of our children should be receiving the best possible education.

The government, both state and federal, has a duty to be reasonable and accommodating.

I've said it in the past and I'll say it again today: the vote is precious; it's almost sacred.

I was so inspired by Dr. King that in 1956 with my brothers and sisters and first cousins, I was only 16 years old, we went down to the public library trying to check out some books and we were told by the librarian that the library was for whites only and not for colors! It was a public library! I never went back to that public library until July 5th, 1998, by this time I'm in the Congress, for a book signing of my book "Walking with the Wind"