I use the phrase "fellow citizen" all the time when referring to the - people always say, "The American people, the American people." I prefer the phrase fellow citizen because there's a power in that, there's a responsibility, there's a duty in using that phrase fellow citizen.

Why don't we scale up those things that do work.

He was a humanist then, he's a humanist now, and to my mind John Carlos is an authentic American hero.

[John Carlos] has spent much of his life since that time as a dedicated human rights advocate and public speaker, and he is out now with a wonderful new text; a memoir, in fact.

Democrats, too often, take blacks for granted, and Republicans, too often, simply ignore black voters.

Sometimes rejection in life is really redirection.

We need to elect leaders who understand that leadership is about loving and serving people, not about self-advancement.