If our education system does not continue to improve and be enhanced and be innovative and almost be revolutionary, then we will continue to lose our place in the world.

According to who brings an issue to the table, people will get up and support it. It shouldn't be based on that. It should be based on whether the kids are performing or not.

I would assume my father would support anything that lifted up and created opportunities for 'the least of these.'

Had dad chosen to use violence he would have been immediately annihilated.

No one can tell any nation what it should want. The nation should determine what they want and how to make their nation become as best as it can become - all of us want our nations to be the best of what they can become, for our children.

No one in the planet can ever tell anyone else what they should do. For example, I do not go around the world trying to say somebody needs to be democratic.

It's going to take all of us rolling up our sleeves to make America the America that it must become.

I believe we should appoint a cabinet-level position that will be solely and fully devoted to ending poverty as we know it in America.

My father's leadership was about more than civil rights. He was deeply concerned with human rights and world peace, and he said so on numerous occasions. He was a civil rights leader, true. But he was increasingly focused on human rights and a global concern and peace as an imperative.

What I heard my mom always say was that, while she was never naive, she understood the FBI's intent was, obviously, to break up the family.

If I woke up every day attempting to be my father, I would fail miserably. I think he was anointed. He was chosen by God, and there are few men or women in our world that will be chosen by God to make the kind of impact that he made.

When you've been raised in a home of love, and for your loved one to be taken away from you through violence, a lot of emotions go through your mind.

Now, Martin Luther King Jr. was a bridge builder, not a wall builder.

The only way you change is you have to at least be communicating.

Many feel that in today's climate some of those in authority are exercising, in effect, a self-serving, 'ends justify the means' mindset as well, and that, in turn, empowers them to do the same.

Human life is important and it feels like there is not a concern in communities of color. Very frustrated, but we will never give up and lose hope and change our system.

That's why I don't generally talk about endorsements because I don't believe we have to tell people who to vote for.

You can win a victory in your neighbourhood. You can win a victory in your school. You can win a victory in your place of worship... Be ashamed of your existence until you've done a little something to make the world in which we all must live a little better than it was when you arrived.

I mean if you stay engaged, and are constantly fighting, you don't have time to regenerate. So sometimes you have to take time to renew your strength and energy, so that you can come back and fight again in a constructive way.

I had the opportunity with my brother to travel with my father probably seven or eight times. The last experience was in 1967, just a few months before he was killed.

The reality is what Black Lives Matter are raising as an issue is an issue.

I think dad would be very proud of young people standing up to promote truth, justice and equality.

There are times when you need a strategic quarterback who has a proven record, and certainly, Colin Kaepernick is one of those.

Because we always are feeling for justice for all that the reality is, unfortunately, the justice system is skewed, and often people of color do not receive appropriate justice in this country.