“My ministry’s always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.”

But we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching,

I have the right to express myself. Once we get through expressing, do we really move forward in society.

I disagree with Muhammad. I’m against hate, anti-Semitism and homophobia.

It`s a difficult thing for a city to be sued by the department of justice and to be told that your police department is systematically failing to serve the people of the state or the city.

If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can’t grandma have a constitutional right to health care?

I am in hell already. I am in Israel.

There are white n*ggers. I’ve seen a lot of white n*ggers in my time.

We’ve got to look toward two years from now [January 2017] to at least provide some balance in congress.

James Brown lives, as long as someone steps out of their body and dances uncontrollably.

I can’t see how an unarmed man rejecting a drug deal ended up dead.

As a Baptist minister, I don’t have the right to impose my views on anyone else. If committed gay and lesbian couples want to marry, that is their business; none of us should stand in their way

If I use the media, even with tricks, to publicize a black youth being shot in the back in Teaneck, New Jersey.

We cannot move forward or will not move forward if we are divided.

The assumption is that the people that are marching and protesting and standing up against this don’t have enough sense to stand up for their own interests.

What’s wrong with denouncing white interlopers?

If Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.

Art and activism can be symbiotic. They don’t have to be, of course; they can also be contradictory.