“This is not just an agreement for the police department, this is an agreement that gets the police department working with the community and the community understanding its role as it continues to work with the police department.”

Getting Democrats organized is like herding cats.

We blacks had problems in the ’60s and we solved them by marching. We’ve still got problems – let’s march.

It does not appear, nor is there any reason to believe that [ Jeff Sessions] will put policing reform front and center in the way that this justice department has.

I wanted to say to Governor Dean, don’t be hard on yourself about hooting and hollering.

The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico,

I’m a patriot in the truest sense of the word.

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

Baltimore is just embarking down this road.

The Democratic Party hasn’t whipped anybody into a frenzy.

We just have to hope and pray that this man [Donald Trump] is changed in terms of how he views the world community.

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

They didn’t have to be a hoodlum, they didn’t have to be a gangster. They could stand up from a broken home, on welfare, and they could run for president of the United States.

So we want to make sure that happens is that we build a relationship with the police department and the community that results in better policing and better cooperation with the community.

If a cop sees a person running out of a store with a gun he’s seeing a crime. He’s not seeing a person standing.

You hear anything? Oh, let’s run! It’s Virginia today!”…

If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.

Only seven years ago we made a treaty by which we were assured that the buffalo country should be left to us forever. Now they threaten to take that from us also.

If I agree to dispose of any part of our land to the white people I would feel guilty of taking food away from our children’s mouths, and I do not wish to be that mean.

The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.

I could really try new things. That was satanism, it works really well, I made a pact.

Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.

We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.

You do not have to agree with me to love me.

If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.