“Dr. King used Gandhi’s commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.”

National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.

I`m deeply concerned about Jeff Sessions, who has clearly expressed opposition to the use of consent decrees and has advanced a lot of this states` rights rhetoric.

The GOP’s freak out over Donald Trump. Just two months to Iowa, can anyone stop him?

I’m projected as an ambulance chaser, but I’m more the ambulance. People call me because they know I will come…. I have never fought a case where they didn’t ask me to come.

Some issues you just – you certainly you have to defend yourself, but you certainly don`t have to denigrate others.

How do you make things fair?

I believed there was enough evidence to go to trial. Grand jury said there wasn’t. Okay, fine. Do I have a right to disagree with the grand jury? Many Americans believe O.J. Simpson was guilty.

Evangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House.

I feel that it is our moral obligation to stand and to be courageous with these families, and particularly Cindy, that have become the conscience of this nation.

I think that you can’t choose leadership. You have to deal with the leadership that the people respond to.

Many like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story told nationally on BET talk shows.

The Baltimore Police Department had engaged in a pattern of practice of conduct that violated the constitution and federal law, and this conduct had eroded trust and to deprive the people of Baltimore of the rights and the protections guaranteed to every American.

I`m very cautious and very concerned about what I have initially seen, but I also believe we`ve got to organize like we have never organized before.We talk about it, but realistically, we`ve got to organize at the grassroots level.

You can’t ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.

We`re going to continue to move forward and fight.

We won`t back down! We won`t be trumped!

Society expects man to be a passive social animal who believes like the People of the Field in “Jurgen” that “to do what you always have done” and “what is expected of you” are the twin rules of life.

The man who is kind and who practices righteousness, who remains passive against the affairs of the world, who considers all creatures on earth as his own self, he attains the Immortal Being; the true God is ever with him.

In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.

Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above.

When one begins to think about it, America depends rather heavily on women’s passive dependence, their femininity. Femininity, if one still wants to call it that, makes American women a target and a victim of the sexual sell.

Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.

Healing requires taking action-it is not a passive event.

It isn’t enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box.