Everything that has happened in my life is because of good government and because the United States of America was the greatest nation on the face of the earth.
What we forget is that African Americans made the largest contribution to America, economically, before the Civil War of any sector of society. I read that the railroads were worth about $2 billion, but slavery was a $3 billion asset.
Everybody in America has been dependent on the government at some time. We owe everybody in America the right to vote and access to capital. What I say is, let's make America work, let's make democracy and free enterprise work for everybody.
We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk.
Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people.