I don't know how you bridge that contradiction, but I felt that Barack Obama was sincere. It didn't feel like a line to me. You know, it felt like him reverting back to what was in his bones and that's, you know, optimism and a deep belief in, you know, American institutions and the American people.

Any time you have, you know, upwards of 90 percent of a demographic voting against somebody, that's a statement.

An America that looks away is ignoring not just the sins of the past but the sins of the present and the certain sins of the future.

When nonviolence begins halfway through the war with the aggressor calling time out, it exposes itself as a ruse.

If George Washington crossing the Delaware matters, so must his ruthless pursuit of the runagate Oney Judge.

Just because you came here in 1880, 1950, whenever, you became an American. You get to celebrate July 4th like every other American. You don't just get the good part. You get the bad part, too. You get all of it.

I am not asking you as a white person to see yourself as an enslaver. I'm asking you as an American to see all of the freedoms that you enjoy and see how they are rooted in things that the country you belong to condoned or actively participated in the past.