Americans, at our best, stand up to bullies and fight those who seek to demean and degrade others.
What most Americans don’t realize is a lot of the challenges we’re struggling with today are the result of conscious housing policies.
Patriotism is a love of country. If you love your country, you should love your countrymen and women. It doesn’t mean you always agree with them or even like them. It is understanding that we have interwoven destiny.
I wrote down the grades I wanted in every class.
If we invest in ourselves, the collective good, we all thrive.
Hopelessness is a really toxic and dangerous state.
Cities can be places that represent the best of our ideals: where Americans of all different backgrounds can come together and, through their interactions, and even through their unity, spawn true American greatness.
I’ve stayed put in the neighborhood where I first got my start and will never forget the people that believed in me and gave me my first chance.
I have seen too many of my male friends – no matter whether they’re on the football field or inside a church – bash gays and then revel in their machismo or piety.
I am a geek nerd who happened to have a temporary period of jockiness.
So many great movements didn’t succeed the first time, but people kept trying and trying and trying.
My dad set a clear model for me for what manhood was all about.
Let us declare that we are a nation of interdependence, and that in America love always trumps hate. Let us declare, so that generations yet unborn can hear us. We are the United States of America; our best days are ahead of us. And together, with Hillary Clinton as our President, America, we will rise.
The issues we hear Donald Trump talking about are just so contrary to who we are as a people. They are an affront and an insult to our higher angels and our best selves.
My weakness in life is two men who seduce me all the time – named Ben & Jerry.
Our nation was founded with a bunch of founding legislators who joined together to move our country out of the blocks and get us started, and every generation since then has found a way to advance the ball down the field.
