The human spirit is resilient and truth - no matter how long you abuse it and how long you try to crush it - will, as Dr. King would say, rise up aga….

To really know what progress we’re making for children, we have to know how many children we have to begin with. The simple act of counting is an exp….

Anti-democracy...is a virus that exists, and pro-democracy is the antibody to that virus, and I think we have to become vigilant, and we have to stay….

Bin Laden didn't come from the abstract. He came from somewhere, and if you look where ... you'll see America's hand of villainy..

I think now, with our technology, our capacity to grow food, our ability to stop raping the Earth and destroying the ecology and killing off fellow c….

In the gun game, we are the most hunted. The river of blood that washes the streets of our nation flows mostly from the bodies of our black children..

Carmen Jones was the first all-Negro film that became a great box-office success. It established the fact that pictures with Negro artists, pictures ….

When I was born, I was colored. I soon became a Negro. Not long after that I was black. Most recently I was African-American. It seems we're on a rol….

There's an old saying in the days of slavery, there are those slaves who lived on the plantation, and there were those slaves who lived in the house.….

I didn't like The Wiz and it wasn't because black people were doing it. I didn't like The Wiz because it was a badly made movie off a classic. Why ar….

We have the opportunity now to look at the two billion people in the world who suffer from the most abject poverty, hunger, disease, and devastation.….

No matter what the greatest tyrant in the world, the greatest terrorist in the world, George W. Bush says, we're here to tell you: Not hundreds, not ….

I like Colin Powell, I like his West Indian background, I like his intellect, I like a lot of things that he does and his style. What is at fault her….

In my earliest of years, my mother was a huge force in my life. She was for all intents and purposes, a single parent. My father had abandoned us. He….

The USA has more people in prison that any other country, including countries with much larger populations. 13% of the population is black but 80% of….

These children and their parents know that getting an education is not only their right, but a passport to a better future - for the children and for….

More than once my mother would point out: "Harry Belafonte is the best-looking man on the planet.".

You can cage the singer but not the song..

When I go across the country, whether it's Albuquerque, New Mexico, whether it's Birmingham, Alabama or Milwaukee, Wisconsin, there are always forces….

Without compromise repression would be defeated. Just as some cancers feed on hormones, compromise becomes the hormone of oppression..

If I've impacted on one heart, one mind, one soul, and brought to that individual a greater truth than that individual came into a relationship with ….