Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.

We are the in midst of a bipartisan moment as it relates to criminal justice reform and dealing with mass incarceration in America which disproportionately impacts the African-American community.

The political process is rough and tumble by definition, and being grounded in faith in a Higher Power has proven helpful in navigating the difficult terrain.

My job in Congress is to identify projects with federal or some other public component and then to push developers to provide employment opportunities to neighborhood residents.

I would encourage the people out in Chicago and all of us to continue to press for, that type of prosecutorial accountability.

[The crowd] will finally succeed in remembering only the simplest concepts repeated a thousand times.

To be haunted by past failures or satisfied with past successes is to arrest forward motion.

The people will learn to feel the dignity of man. They will not merely demand their rights, which have been trampled in the dust, but themselves will take them - make them their own.

We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.

Be able to keep a secret or promise when you know in your heart that it is the right thing to do.

The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice, cruelty, according to their power.

The wise hand does not all the tongue dictates.

If you believe in your value, how could it possibly be appropriate to hide it from people who need it?

In listening mood she seemed to stand, The guardian Naiad of the strand.

There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee.