In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport. |
It's like the story of Jesus Christ. |
Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine. |
King was really telling us it's not about love, it's about being lovable. 'I love you baby and if I can't have you no one else will is frightening,' but once you become lovable we become safe and that's where I think we'll end up. |
Once we used to have to crank up our cars, now you can pop it on from inside your house. Everything has changed except how we get freedom. |
Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten. |
Race baiters and discriminators may go underground, but they never move out of town. |
Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss. |
So why would I want to call myself a conservative after the way them white racist thugs have used that word to hide behind? They call themselves new Republicans. |
Some kind of way, we have to say enough is enough. |
They [black conservatives] have a right to exist, but why would I want to walk around with a swastika on my shirt after the way Hitler done messed it [the swastika symbol] up? |
They [black conservatives] have a right to exist, but why would I want to walk around with a swastika on my shirt after the way Hitler done messed it [the swastika symbol] up? |
They didn't win, and I got that from the white press. At four o'clock [on Election Day 2004], that evening, the white press said from the exit polls that [Democratic presidential nominee John] Kerry had won by a landslide and then three hours later something funny happened. |
They have a right to exist, but why would I want to walk around with a swastika on my shirt after the way Hitler done messed it (the swastika symbol) up? So why would I want to call myself a conservative after the way them white racists thugs have used that word to hide behind? They call themselves new Republicans. |
We do not believe, had he been white, that he would be dead. And when we black folks say to America that we're not going to tolerate it, it's going to stop. |