As a Westerner, the child of civil rights and anti-war activists, I embraced Islam not in abandonment of my core values, drawn almost entirely from the progressive tradition, but as an affirmation of them.

I'm a child of the Civil Rights Movement.

This is a battle, but it's not the war. We consider this one of the civil-rights issues of the 21st century, and we're going to continue to fight it, in Florida and elsewhere.

For believers, both privilege and privation are a trial, and both demand responses: one demands service, and the other demands patience. The greatest privilege is to live well in flourishing lands; the greatest privation is to live in the midst of war, especially civil war.

The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.

I support the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.