Hurricane season routinely strikes the Caribbean harder than the U.S.

As a nation we should commit ourselves not only to the fight against terrorism, but to economic justice, defeat of the AIDS epidemic and vestiges of discriminatory policies of all kinds.

Full participation in government and society has been a basic right of the country symbolizing the full citizenship and equal protection of all.

If we believe in our current penal process, then the penalties imposed by judges and juries should be the only sanctions for one's crime, not the invisible sanctions of the legislature.

We owe it to the flood victims of New Orleans to give them truthful answers as to why this event took place and to assure our citizens that tragedies like this will never happen again.

Hurricane season routinely strikes the Caribbean harder than the U.S.

The Iraq war took priority over domestic disaster prevention.

Meanwhile, our young men and women whose economic circumstances make military service a viable career choice are dying bravely in a war with no end in sight.

The people who couldn't get out of New Orleans to escape the storm were predominantly Black.

Regardless of the nature of their crime or any rehabilitation that may have occurred, these ex-felons cannot participate in the decision-making process of this great Nation.

The United States is historically a nation of immigrants.

Thousands of people may have been killed by hurricane Katrina and many more could die in its aftermath because of the President's refusal to heed the calls of governors for help in repairing the infrastructure in their states.

The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to the young workers of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the same way.

Today many Caribbean workers can be found in the hospital, construction, service and hotel industries, but there is also a growing professional sector.

The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery.

We love the ability of the people to influence the actions of decision-makers, of lawmakers and presidents to be removed from or elevated to office by the will of voters, and of the community to connect amongst diverse populations through the ballot box.

The President is destroying the fabric of America with a combined policy of war, tax cuts for the wealthy, and reductions in spending for domestic needs.

There were no weapons of mass destruction and Saddam Hussein was not involved in the September 11th attack.

I am struck by how casually we as a nation react to the carnage in Iraq.

Now is the time for the U.S. and the nations of Western Europe who engaged in the slave trade throughout this hemisphere to come forward in a positive way to assist in undoing the harm that was caused by their past colonial policies in the hemisphere.

I'm in the kitchen and I'm not walking out.

Without question, conditions in the Haiti are worse since Aristide's removal, and continue to deteriorate.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was indeed a vital instrument of democracy, ensuring the integrity and reliability of a democratic process that we as a Country hold so dear.

I, for one, would think both about how far we have come as a country and how much further we need to go to erase racism and discrimination from our society.

We don't windsurf in Harlem.

At least 23,000 civilians have also died in the Iraqi killing field and the U.S. is stuck in a quagmire.

I like to go for a walk or swimming or in the garden when I can. It's a busy kind of life, but I guess I'm lucky.

This aesthetic quality, then, is what politics is all about. It's authenticity that separates winners from losers, good politics from bad, and he-man leader-types from consultant-directed puppet-boys.

I'm a proud strict mom and, you know, I'm really proud of the two daughters I've raised. And I'm especially proud of my relationship with them. We're very close. I think we're good friends.

I don't mind America becoming a Third World country. The weather is better in the Third World than it is where I live in New Hampshire. And household help will be much cheaper.

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Three things cannot long be hidden the sun the moon and the truth.

Though our trials are diverse, there is one thing the Lord expects of us no matter our difficulties and sorrows: He expects us to press on.

The U.S. policy of hoarding crude oil never made the world, or even the U.S., a safer place.

I'm very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We've got to be careful and make sure we don't foul our own nest.

There can be no companion better than a brother and there can be no friend better than a sister.

A father is the one friend upon whom we can always rely.

I was a really avid bowler when I was a teenager. I had about a 210-220 average. I had blisters on my fingers.

We must permit the youth of the land who would bear arms to decide whether or not there should be war.

I always read that men don't like intelligent girls, but I've always found the reverse.

I find myself eating different kinds of chicken each and every day, even if it's by surprise.

No human is limited.

I'm so excited about 'Shattered;' it's something I've really enjoyed working in, and it's very different from anything I've done before. I've always been a character actor and done a lot of support work. I've never really been the lead actor, so I'll try and use what I've learned along the way from the other projects.

When we were in the seminary we got a stipend direct from the government and for that stipend we had an obligation to stick to our teaching job for five years.

You know, you really do choose your existence in a way.

There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I was getting' to do all the things that she would have wanted to have done.

Personally, I would love to see every gun on the planet disappear.