I just released an op-ed in the "Washington Post" that talks about providing an I.D. so that everyone can have an I.D., primarily, the social securit….

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've never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known..

On Saturday of MLK weekend, just days before the inauguration, thousands of people joined me in the nation`s capital to protect the dream of Dr. Mart….

Any use of the names of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, in connection with any violence or killing of police, is reprehensible and against the pursuit….

I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride t….

I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan..

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

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

Life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values..

I think that any time you look at the fact that boycotts have historically led to change, whatever temporary inconvenience there may be, it in the lo….

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

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

One of the things that`s offensive is saying in the fifth district there`s nothing going on. This is a very vast district. The congressman happens to….

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

It`s a difficult thing for a city to be sued by the department of justice and to be told that your police department is systematically failing to ser….

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

The Baltimore Police Department had engaged in a pattern of practice of conduct that violated the constitution and federal law, and this conduct had ….

National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country..

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

I`m very cautious about what appears to be things put in place that will begin to roll back some of the progress that I believe we`ve made..