“It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That’s where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts.”

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.

They tried to say that being gay is a sin, and I said that adultery is a sin.

We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.

We’re not anti-police… we’re anti-police brutality.

You and many others addressed yesterday as it relates to criminal justice, as it relates to voting oppression.

We don’t owe America anything – America owes us.

As I often say, we have come a long way from the days of slavery, but in 2014, discrimination and inequality still saturate our society in modern ways.

I cannot imagine where we would have been without BET.

I don’t think Dr. King helped racial harmony, I think he helped racial justice.

People have a right to be nervous and fearful. They heard what Trump said during the campaign and are wondering if he`ll follow through on his promises.

I think it gives a symbolic boost, as well as those shows do bring down some monetary investments in the city.

I need to hear something about how he`s going to bring people together in the spirit, hopefully, of Martin Luther King Jr., and if that`s not heard, then we`ve got to constantly challenge him.

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

The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.

The flavour of a fish which comes out of the sea at Acre is not similar to the flavour of a fish which comes out of the sea in Spain.

I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.

To bribe a farmer not to plant 38 acres with corn … seven weeks of salary for a Customs man assigned to save us from the terror of high-quality, low priced foreign TV sets, or the subsidy on 6,000 bushels of wheat to prop up the Soviet regime.

We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn’t get the mule. So we decided we’d ride this donkey as far as it would take us.