It's a funny thing, in the US we all believe that we have a right to go to school. We have a right to a good education. And we don't. The U.S. Consti….

Growing up as a black kid with a white father who loves you, who affirms you, who was part of your life is fundamentally different than what black pe….

In the USA, it's harder for a black man with no criminal record to find a job than a white man with a criminal record, which is to say that race is a….

Race is a lie built on a lie. The first lie is that people are different, somehow skin color or hair texture is more significant than eye color, or t….

The beauty of being black in American society is that black has always been an inclusive definition. White has always been an exclusive definition. I….

When somebody says the best thing you can do is be tough, the best thing you can do is use your brute force, then we're selling ourselves short..

Racial profiling punishes innocent individuals for the past actions of those who look and sound like them. It misdirects crucial resources and underc….

Let us invest less and less in war and tax cuts for the richest 1 percent, and more and more in jobs and schools for the other 99 percent..

As an American people, what is greatest about our history are the many times we have led this world away from hate, towards hope..

In order to bring down the incarceration rate, you've got to start with the beginning of life. You've got to make sure that parents and schools are p….

In this nation, the greatest of all nations, there are no second-class families. That is our great American conviction..

The right to vote is the right upon which all of our rights are leveraged - and without which none can be protected..

I was raised in a family where we were taught that the best thing you could do with your life was to really kind of push the cause of progress and ju….

We really have to, as a country, recognize that school is where people get their identity not just as a scholar, or a future business person, but as ….

No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage..

Civil marriage, like all civil rights provided by the government, must be provided equally to all Americans..

When you're smart on crime, you start off by recognizing that both the victim, first of all, the victim, but also the person who did the crime are bo….

I train my kids to dream really big and impossible dreams and to pursue them doggedly..

Let us nurture the practice of family values, by embracing policies that value families..