It is up to us to change laws on the books like 'Stand Your Ground' laws and push elected officials to enact regulations that hold police officers to the same standards as the rest of society. This is why we vote.
I do believe the Democratic party has moved far to the right. I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.
Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls.
Dr. King used Gandhi's commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians.
Evangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House.
How do you make things fair?
I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.
I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy.
I was the first candidate to come out against this war, spoke at every anti-war march.
I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn't mean anything.
If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.
If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.
James Brown became my father. He would talk to me the way a father talked to a son. He became the father I never had.
National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.
One of the reasons I get so much joy out of my own children's childhoods is that I'm having my first childhood myself.
The boxing world is full of all kinds of corruption.
The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.
We're not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we're not willing to give them first chances.
I've learned how to measure what I say. Al Sharpton in 1986 was trying to be heard. I was a local guy and was like, 'Y'all are ignoring us.'
