If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can't grandma have a constitutional right to health care?

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.

Dreams come true when you live life awake.

Nearly all God's jewels are crystallized tears.

The beauty of a move lies not in its appearance but in the thought behind it.

Imagination is as close as we will ever be to godhead . . . for in imagination, we can create wonders.

Why should I ever resist any delay or disapointment, any affliction or oppression or humiliation - when I know God will use it in my life to make me like Jesus and to prepare me for heaven?

The thing about our drug laws is that they're not based on science.

There are things that can be accomplished only by violence. Physical love is unthinkable without violence.

Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

I am too pure for you or anyone.