Everything has changed and nothing has changed.

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.

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.

If you don't know where you come from, then you want know when you'er being taken back.

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.

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.

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