The history of the African American community is one of enduring, relentless struggle with a vision of accepting nothing less than full social and economic equality.Collection: Equality
Medical disenfranchisement is fueled by a host of factors that include worsening shortage of primary care doctors in needy communities and a troubling scarcity of providers willing to treat the uninsured or publicly insured. Adding to the trend are fewer medical students choosing primary care over more lucrative and specialized fields.Collection: Medical
I've enjoyed a great friendship and relationship and have a tremendous amount of affinity for both the Clintons... and I'd like to keep it that way.Collection: Friendship
The best protection against recidivism is a job.
Our nation's multiculturalism is what makes us so special as a nation.
To ensure fair competition, there must be effective controls on currency manipulation, and monopoly pricing needs to be outlawed on such items as intellectual property, especially pharmaceuticals.
Culture is central to what makes us human.
I would jump off the Willis Tower, which is the tallest building in Chicago, to support Hillary Clinton.
My congressional record speaks for itself, and my ability to build coalitions locally, nationally and across the aisles in Congress is transparent.
Many of the young people living in inner-city America don't see themselves - I mean, they even talk about things like death and dying. And there's a tremendous loss of hope. And of all the things to lose, I think nothing is worse or more difficult to overcome than the loss of hope.
The way to reduce the deficit is to create jobs and work opportunities so that people will have money with which to pay taxes.
What the federal government can do, especially as it relates to urban, inner-city America, is invest resources that would help create jobs.
Some of the huge tax breaks that we gave to the wealthiest 1 percent of the population in this country during the Bush era have contributed significantly to the deficit.
The arts are what humanize science and history.
Chicago is a world-class culinary center. We need to guard that reputation and status.
I believe in our free market system.
The inequality between CEO compensation and the compensation received by workers and stockholders has grown to such an extent that it endangers our economy and and our society.
I grew up in the South, and I think there are lots of people who have distorted views of the South.
Individuals in the South are just like individuals any place else.
#BlackLivesMatter brought a new sense of urgency, audacity, and outrage to the issue of police violence against black men that has made it impossible to ignore, to cover up, or to justify.
#BlackLivesMatter has raised the bar in our national dialog: Addressing economic inequality is necessary but not sufficient. It is also necessary to directly confront racial injustice.
It would be wonderful to be a member of the United States Senate.
Nothing has more impact on my district than unemployment.
I believe in democracy. I also believe in religious freedom.
The thing that I guess I've never understood is why people persist that I carried a crown on a pillow to Reverend Moon. I never did. I took it to his wife.
The government is what you've got. Politics is what you want.
Everyone who has succeeded in correcting their wrong should have the right to work.
I grew up in rural Arkansas, and I'm afraid that begging is not part of our characteristics.
Middle school students are at a critical time in their lives when making good choices matters - the decisions they make in these formative years have an impact on their future success.
Sickle cell does not have the priority in this country that it had in the 1960s, when I started working on it. Congress has been cutting everything that wasn't nailed down.
My mother often told us that it is a poor dog that will not wag its own tail.
I have a tendency to campaign positively and campaign on issues, not try to tear someone else down.
I just want to believe that, as a citizen in this country, that I have equal protection under the law and that I can have a situation assessed fairly, that people can look at it, and that a court of law can determine what the outcome is.
I've got hundreds of friends who are police officers. I work with the police.
I try to bridge the gap between police and local communities.
You go to traffic court in many locations throughout the country, and you can spell justice - J-U-S-T dash U-S. Just us.
We borrowed money to fight the Revolutionary War, and so there was a debt owed. We paid it. If we have done that for 235 years, if we have done it ever since this country has existed, we can do it again.
I'm a realist, and so we have to take what exists and continue to struggle to move forward.
I don't have as much money as Rahm Emanuel.
I don't think you decree political positions.
I think life is the sum total of your experiences.
I'm not a one-issue person.
I have a great deal of respect and affinity for Tammy Duckworth; she's a seatmate of mine. She's got heart, soul; she's a war hero.
People crown kings and queens at homecoming parades all the time. We do a lot of things in our society that are simply symbolic.
Trade and globalization are here to stay.
Our nation's attitudes toward trade have been shaped by the evolving struggle over who has been helped and who has been disadvantaged by trade policy as our economy has developed.
Whether the struggle was between English merchants and the American colonies, pre Civil War northern manufacturers vs. southern slave holders, or American grain farmers and auto manufacturers seeking advantage in the Mexican agriculture and labor markets in the 1990s, U.S. policy has reflected the economic clash of interests of the day.
Strengthening our national network of Community Health Centers - one of the best kept secrets in medicine - can help counter America's growing access problem.
Getting the care for a common cold, migraine, or high blood pressure can and should be easy, whether one has an insurance card or not.
Universal coverage is a critical goal, but even if every man and woman, every parent and every child in America woke up with an insurance card in their hands, they would still need a place to go for health care.