“Congress must move forward vigorously and help the American people.”

Democracy is not a spectator sport.

I think the immediate thing is we stand up to protect those people who are in trouble.

Young People Can Swing the Election.

The Republicans must get their act together and protect working families.

We need an economy that works for all, not just the few.

Young people have the power to change this country and the world.

If we’re going to achieve the change we need, we must elect strong progressives to Congress.

Many families are struggling, at least there will be direct payments for every working class adult and their children, and an extension of unemployment benefits.

When we stand together there is nothing, nothing, nothing we cannot accomplish.

This level of inequality is immoral and unsustainable.

Republicans didn’t care about the deficit when it came to tax breaks for billionaires. We cannot buy into their rhetoric about the deficit now.

Fashion? Let’s get to work.

The American people need a raise, and they need it now.

Americans’ right to free speech should not be proportionate to their bank accounts.

If we can afford war, we can afford to support children going hungry.

Politics is not a baseball game with winners or losers. What politics is about is whether we protect the needs of millions of people in this country who are hurting.

What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.

A country that does not know how to read and write is easy to deceive.

The character of our country is on the ballot.

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.

The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.

Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.

Poverty is what we call the extremes at the bottom.

The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.