“Dr. King’s general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.”

I think you don’t support people based on one or two cases of situations.

The icy rain did not deter us as we reminded Donald Trump and other leaders that we will not be silenced.

A jury said he wasn’t. So I have as much right to question a jury as they do. Does it make somebody a racist? No! They just disagreed with the jury. So did I.

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

I haven’t done the things I’ve done to be in a sitcom.

I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.

Somebody had to bring the truth to the doorstep of this president.

That ain’t nothing to be proud of. That means their forefathers was crooks.

A war of words escalated between the president-elect and a civil rights icon.

On Saturday of MLK weekend, just days before the inauguration, thousands of people joined me in the nation`s capital to protect the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.

My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.

The job of an activist is to make people tense and cause social change.

We need to make some real fundamental change from the Constitution down in this country.

It seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin.

I always go by instinct and then wrestle with where by instinct brought me.

The unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.

Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.

They saw the flicker of bats overhead. They smelt the drifting scent of honeysuckle, and the delicious smell of wild thyme crushed under their bodies. A reed-warbler sang a beautiful little song in the reeds below, and then another answered.

“Heaven help us,” said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.

If God permits virtue to be persecuted on earth, it is not for us to question his intentions. It may be that his rewards are held over for another life, for is it not true as written in Holy Scripture that the Lord chastenenth only the righteous! And after all, is not virtue it’s own reward?

Do not expect good from another’s death.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal.