The belief that America is constantly changing and constantly improving, and we will never be perfect, but we can -- we can move in the direction of perfecting our union.
My gut tells me that the people who were not going to be voting for me are not going to be voting for me after this spee...
I can no more disown him than I can disown my white grandmother, a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed aga...
But the anger is real, it is powerful, and to simply wish it away, to condemn it without understanding its roots only se...
So, when they are told to bus their children to a school across town, when they hear that an African-American is getting...
Did I know him to be an occasionally fierce critic of American domestic and foreign policy? Of course. Did I ever hear h...
And if we walk away now, if we simply retreat into our respective corners we will never be able to come together and sol...
As imperfect as he may be, he has been like family to me. He strengthened my faith, officiated my wedding and baptized m...
The profound mistake of Reverend Wright's sermons is not that he spoke about racism in our society. It's that he spoke a...
I understand the anger. It's time for us to move to a new place.
To the larger aspirations of all Americans: the white woman struggling to break the glass ceiling, the white man who's b...