It's my America, and its problems are mine.

America is a great country, built by great people - you know what made them great - the spirit of freedom and a disregard for binding tradition.

Start acting to transform your neighborhood into the new land of liberty, and then a few others would follow your footsteps to transform their own neighborhoods. And in time, our entire America will not just be great again, but she will be greater than she ever was.

America is my mother and my mother is my responsibility.

When we talk about the history of America, Black history is American history.

In fact, just for the sake of understanding, if we measure the amount of blood and sweat that actually went into the making of America, we’d find that the contributions of the blacks far outweigh the contributions of the whites!

The human heart is first a human heart, then everything else - American, Christian, Asian, Jew, or whatever.

It's time we become the new Americans - Americans with more accountability than recklessness - Americans with more curiosity than rigidity - Americans with more acceptability than prejudice - Americans with more inclusivity than discrimination.

Whoever comes to these shores of liberty, in the hope of life, freedom and happiness, automatically becomes an American, by measure of the same determination and will that made our founding fathers set foot on Plymouth Rock escaping British bigotry, snobbery and barbarism.