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

We know that if whites and nonwhites vote in the same percentages as they did in 2000, Bush will be re-defeated by 3 million votes.

The First Amendment means everything to me.

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.

There is no coloration to rights. Everybody has rights. I don't care who you are, where you come from. You got rights. I got rights. All God's children got rights.

You must place interest in principle above interest on principal.

Many are attracted to social service - the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we have social justice, we won't need social service.