Education remains one of the black community's most enduring values. It is sustained by the belief that freedom and education go hand in hand, that learning and training are essential to economic quality and independence.

It's time for greatness - not for greed. It's a time for idealism - not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action.

We're a violent nation, and we need to confront it. This gun plague has to stop.

No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.

We have the capacity to make sure that every mother has pre-natal care. Yet, we don't do it. What is it about America? It says we don't value children and families. We are hypocrites.

Be real. Try to do what you say, say what you mean, and be what you seem.

Family and moral values are so central to everything that I am.