The unfortunate part is there`s not enough balance in the legislative chambers, and particularly the senate that has to do that confirmation for ther….

I think you don't support people based on one or two cases of situations. You deal with their balance over the long run..

As I ran for president, I hoped that one child would come out of the ghetto like I did, could look at me walk across the stage with governors and sen….

Dr. King's general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era..

A war of words escalated between the president-elect and a civil rights icon. Donald Trump fired back at democratic Congressman John Lewis after Lewi….

I have the right to express myself. Once we get through expressing, do we really move forward in society..

We've got to look toward two years from now [January 2017] to at least provide some balance in congress..

My ministry's always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order..

We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution..

I can't see how an unarmed man rejecting a drug deal ended up dead..

But we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching, if we kept on voting, if we kept on believing, we would make America beautiful for eve….

When you're dealing with boycotts, you don't need everyone. You just need enough to be effective..

My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today..

We must become the United States of America that represents every community, that represents every individual. And we will ultimately become a strong….

During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians..

We may switch presidents, but we`re just going to switch legs and keep on marching..

We`re going to continue to move forward and fight. I just think that, unfortunately, the president-elect [Donald Trump] has chosen to address every i….

I think everybody understood what happened, why this consent decree came about after the Freddie Gray situation. There was tension on both sides..

James Brown lives, as long as someone steps out of their body and dances uncontrollably..

I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending..

Some issues you just - you certainly you have to defend yourself, but you certainly don`t have to denigrate others..