These are tests. Situations like this give you a benchmark with how society is doing with respect to racial harmony. If society hasn't passed this test, then we have the right to say we still have a problem with racism.

One of the tests of leadership in a diverse society is that you not allow issues like this -- which are complex -- to boil over into angry, polarized debates,

We respect the party process. We've been working hard to secure the endorsement, and we'll continue to do so.

[At the 1995 rally, Farrakhan was] a facilitator, ... a range of other reasons why they came, and I would venture to say that's pretty much his role this time around.

In search of harmony; it is impossible for us not to acknowledge and respect each other’s realities and not to realize that Reality might be more than the sum of our realities.

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.