As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge.

If your Bible tells you that gay people ought not be married in your church, don't tell them they can't be married at city hall. Marriage is a civil rite as well a civil right, and we can't let religious bigotry close the door to justice to anyone.

The Republican Party would have the American flag and the swastika flying side by side.

I've appeared on a weekly syndicated television show since 1980

Discrimination is discrimination no matter who the victim is, and it is always wrong. There are no special rights in America, despite the attempts by many to divide blacks and the gay community with the argument that the latter are seeking some imaginary special rights at the expense of blacks.

The civil rights movement didn't begin in Montgomery and it didn't end in the 1960s. It continues on to this very minute.

You could not be in the civil rights movement without having an appreciation for everybody's rights. That these rights are not divisible - not something men have and women don't and so on.