Activist

I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.

We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.

While I've spent a lot of quality time with my children, perhaps it's not been enough.

People internalize, from the jail to student loan debt, to credit card debt, to unemployment to the whole collective. It manifests itself in many ways, in people's home lives, domestic stuff.

When they wrote the Constitution, only white male landowners had the right to vote.

Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.

There's great disparity between who goes to college and who goes to jail. Who lives long and who dies prematurely, is the defining issue of our time. And I submit to you, there's a significant race dimension, it is basically class-driven.

I had to steal to survive.

I hear that melting-pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted.

I mean, the fight for a health care bill to cover all Americans and leave none behind is attacked as being a race appeal, which is not true, but then it's put out in the media as true.

I take my role seriously as a pastor.

I was extended secret service protection during my presidential run in 1984, when I received the most death threats ever made toward a candidate.

Fighting disparities is very significant.

The relationship between the prophet and the President, the priest and the President, is a sacred one.

The law protects you from being abused. It doesn't threaten your lifestyle for someone else to have the right to exhibit their lifestyle.

There have been more people disenfranchised in Washington than there have been in Kuwait.

Those who have the most wealth and the most property, their children have the first, the best, and the most.

The laws are stacked for the wealthy.

If you don't know what tomorrow holds, you need to know who holds tomorrow!

America needs young people to be inspired to choose sacrifice over greed.