This is essential that we have a resurgence in democratic participation. And I don't mean big-D Democrat, I mean small-D democrat. I mean getting involved in your neighborhood, your community. This is no time to say, "I'm not into politics." This is a time to go headlong into the welfare of this nation.

I was very proud to be part of the Million Man March. I think it's one of the best things that I ever did.

We need young people to be involved, and we have to expect that young people are going to be impatient, they don't want to wait, and they've got new ideas and new ways of looking at problems.

I'll just say, you know, over the course of the last quarter century I've learned a lot.

The First Amendment says that we can protest and call to - on our government to address grievances.

Trump is trying to tell all of us Americans that we are our own problem, not him. And that's not true. He's the problem.

I don't feel that I've been hampered by [ racism or discrimination], and the reason why is that we reach out to people on the basis of where everyone meets, and try to build common cause on that basis. Because of that, I think we've cut through some of the issues that normally divide people.