“The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this 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!

Every victim calls us…. “Who put Sharpton in charge?” The victim!

Why are my arms so weak? It’s like I did that push-up last year for nothing!

When the revolutionary theory of government began to prevail, and Church and State found that they were educating for opposite ends and in a contradictory spirit, it became necessary to remove children entirely from the influence of religion.

Those who trust us educate us.

It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.

I understand what rappers are talking about. I think rap is less about educating people about the black community and more about making money.

I’m very educated and can give you somewhat of a vocabulary, but I don’t get to the philosophical side.

So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He’s not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball.

If I’m educated and passionate about a topic, I’ll answer the question. But I also know when to shut the hell up.