Dr. King used Gandhi's commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.

My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.

We're not anti-police... we're anti-police brutality.

The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house.

I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.

We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.

I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.

I've never seen a prosecutor hold a press conference to discredit the victim.

I've seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.

If Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.

Life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.

This is one of the problems with reality: the extent to which it resembles bad fiction.

American liberals today are hesitant to speak out against the denial of rights that is perpetrated in the name of Islam.

I encounter a lot of prejudice and a lot of darkness. I have to negotiate constantly through situations that are uncomfortable or difficult or strange.

It turns out your conscious mind - the part you think of as you - is really the smallest part of what’s happening in your brain, and usually the last one in line to find out any information.

I feel I'll take on the responsibility of showing the world a whole different kind of Latin woman.

Yo. I'm from Beverly Hills, and I be pimpin'.

In the end, democratic societies are stronger and more resilient than any autocracy. And more adaptable too.

The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to feel important.

Increasingly I've come to think that what's at the core of acting is thinking. Most people would say it's feeling.

I would love to meet Martin Luther King. His fearless attitude, leadership, and self-awareness changed our world.