Our God is big enough for that.

We understand it because we get the sense today that politics has become a business and not a mission.

This journey teaches us that they are going to keep driving that wedge; they are going to keep the distraction going.

The leaders in Washington have forgotten President Kennedy's call to remember that 'here on Earth God's work must truly be our own.'

If we have more black men in prison than are in our colleges and universities, then it's time to take the bullet out.

This disaster was a powerful metaphor for what's gone on for generations.

And it made me think about our cities and communities all around this country, how not only do we still have scars from that riot and the 'quiet riots' that happen every day—but how in too many places we haven't even taken the bullet out.

If too many of our kids don't have health insurance; it's time to take the bullet out.

A few weeks ago, I attended a service at First A.M.E. Church in Los Angeles to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the LA Riots. After a jury acquitted 4 police officers of beating Rodney King—a beating that was filmed and flashed around…

We can diminish poverty if we approach it in two ways: by taking mutual responsibility for each other as a society, and also by asking for some more individual responsibility to strengthen our families.

Those 'quiet riots' that take place every day are born from the same place as the fires and the destruction and the police decked out in riot gear and the deaths. They happen when a sense of disconnect settles in and hope dissipates.

So, you're about four-and-a-half years late on leadership on this issue.