Activist

Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.

Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.

When you create more small businesses, you create small entrepreneurship. Out of that comes self-determination and employment.

We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.

Ronald Reagan was older than I was when he ran for president.

Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.

I had gained a greater appreciation of hearing the concerns of woman, doctors, and so many others.

Any attempt to dilute my support for Sen. Obama will not succeed.

I'm not wasting my time with any more non-straight-talking candidates.

I want to make America better!

At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.

I am a journalist.

Negroes' problem is that they do not have their egos. That's why our churches end up having a white service, because our preacher is not arrogant enough to take God's word, so he have to go and get some white fellow's agenda and put it in his church.

When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.

You can be out of slavery and have the right to vote, but unless you have access to capital, industry and technology, you can't fulfill your dreams.

George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.

Statehood for the District of Columbia is the most important civil rights and social justice issue in America today.

I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.