In 1990, when we started the Black Community Crusade for Children, we were always talking about all children, but we paid particular attention to children who were not white, who were poor, who were disabled, and who were the most vulnerable.Parents didn't think their children would live to adulthood, and the children didn't think they were going to live to adulthood. That's when we started our first gun-violence campaign. We've lost 17 times more young black people to gun violence since 1968 than we lost in all the lynching in slavery.

Semi-automatic weapons have no socially redeeming purpose.

When Jesus Christ asked little children to come to him, he didn't say only rich children, or White children, or children with two-parent families, or children who didn't have a mental or physical handicap. He said, Let all children come unto me.

Justice is not cheap. Justice is not quick. It is not ever finally achieved.

I hope that people of all faiths will start looking for our too-invisible children who are crying out for help.

People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests.

Never let us confuse what is legal with what is right. Everything Hitler did in Nazi Germany was legal, but it was not right.