I often tell people I don't care whether they join the NAACP or some other group, but you better join something.

With all the other -isms that we deal with, that sort of nameless -ism that we have in too many of our hearts against the poor in this country is what wounds us most broadly.

As an American people, what is greatest about our history are the many times we have led this world away from hate, towards hope.

Let us invest less and less in war and tax cuts for the richest 1 percent, and more and more in jobs and schools for the other 99 percent.

In a democracy there are only two types of power: there's organized people and organized money, and organized money only wins when people aren't organized.

There's sort of a persistent misperception that talking about race is black folk's burden. Ultimately, only men can end sexism, and only white people can end racism.