America has swerved from its ethical center.

At a certain point, when there's a barrier between you and what's right, eventually you have to decide you're not going to allow yourself to be subjugated.

But my father also supported human rights, freedom and self-determination for all people, including Latino agricultural workers, Native Americans, and the millions of impoverished white men and women who were treated as second-class citizens.

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

White supremacy is a sin. Neo-Nazism is a sin.

One of the reasons this election is so important is because the Supreme Court hangs in the balance. We need to overturn that terrible Supreme Court decision, Citizens United, and then reform our whole campaign finance system.

The really nice thing with 'Future Past' is that you actually have a superhero film - much to everyone's surprise, I will hope - that is about something. It's about racism, I hope. It's about resisting oppression. It's about fighting for freedom and the cost of fighting for freedom.

The lack of moral character is the number one problem in the black community today

Evangelical theology is modest theology, because it is determined to be so by its object, that is, by him who is its subject.

But for we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare... are to be found portrayed in it.

Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.

Nothing is more praiseworthy, nothing more suited to a great and illustrious man than placability and a merciful disposition.