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

We know there are no weapons of mass destruction. But there are weapons of misdirection. Millions without health insurance, poverty abounds. For war, billions more, but no more for the poor.

If you don't know where you come from, it's difficult to determine where you are.- It's even more difficult to plan where you are going.

I am in the valley of prayer on the issue of gay marriage, and I will err on the side of inclusiveness and not exclusion. I'm going to follow Jesus and say, Whosoever will, let them come. And I'm going to extend rights to all of God's children and if I am wrong, God will have to judge me.

Rosa Parks was an unlikely person, but she became an instrument of the people's will in that community who were tired. They said she was tired from working and perhaps she was - but she herself said later that she was spiritually tired and weary of being humiliated by being asked to move back so that a white person could occupy her seat.

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

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