Public policy today is favoring the rich, not the poor. It's not addressing the needs of the poor.

I'm neither Democrat nor Republican. I'm Methodist. I have grievances with both parties.

It's ironic that the Bible belt is the killing belt - Texas, Florida, Alabama, Virginia, and so forth, Georgia. Chief executioners.

I think the Montgomery bus boycott initiated an era of self-determination.

Public policy today is favoring the rich, not the poor. It's not addressing the needs of the poor.

By reserving the penalty of death for black defendants, or for the poor, or for those convicted of killing white persons, we perpetrate the ugly legacy of slavery-teaching our children that some lives are inherently less precious than others.

It's interesting to me that killing damages the image of God when it's done by a person, but it doesn't damage it when it's done by the state.