Marriage is a civil right. If you don't want gay people to marry in your church, good for you. But you can't say they can't marry in your city.

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

You know, I come from six generations of college graduates.

Ever since I've become chairman, there have been profiles of me in People, George, The Washington Post, The Detroit News, and all of them could have been written by the same person

Working in a situation with men and women, and seeing women take on roles equal to the roles taken by men made you understand that, "Hey, these people can do things too." And I think it made me and other people in the movement realize that we're living in a community of equals. And that among those equals, they have equal rights. And we ought to respect their rights if they respected ours.

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.

Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.