During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians.

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.

Every notion that any man, dead, living, or unborn, might form as to the universe will necessarily prove wrong

When you are on top of your stuff, which on its own will secure you continuous increase

With them the individual counted for nothing. No one was irreplaceable, because they drew no distinction between one man and another... In this community there was harmony, but no love.

No matter how bad things are, you can at least be happy that you woke up this morning.

It is a primitive form of thought that things exist or do not exist.

Pathology is not a problem to be solved, but the soul's way of working on itself.

Most of us manage the fateful things that happen in our lives the best we can, certainly not to a Stalin-like 20-year plan.

Old concept: Love is blind. Marriage is an eye opener. New concept: Love is not blind - it simply enables one to see things others fail to see.

I can't swim but if my girlfriend was drowning, I'd still dive in to save her.

Once you wake up thought in a man, you can never put it to sleep again.