Public Opinion & Polls

It's about spiritual leadership. When women bring their young boys and they see women leading the prayer, they can initiate change as they grow up.

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

Albums – like books and black lives - they still matter.

In the midst of a career spent covering and consuming news, it has become painfully apparent to me that I am presently too much a part of the news, due to my actions.

The only way I will rest in peace is if one day transgender people aren’t treated the way I was. They [should be] treated like humans, with valid feelings and human rights. Gender needs to be taught about in schools, the earlier the better. My death needs to mean something. My death needs to be counted in the number of transgender people who commit suicide this year…Fix society. Please.

We will never forget your sons and daughters who have died on our soil. They are now our sons and daughters.

Today, Paris is the capital of the world.

My brother was Muslim, and he was killed by people who pretend to be Muslims. They are terrorists, that's it.

They say that nothing is going to be accomplished here; the division is wider than ever, so gridlock will be even greater. No, this won’t be done in a tidy way. The battle of ideas never ends, and, frankly, never should.

The movie Selma is a story about the American Civil Rights movement that totally worked and now everything is fine.

Americans can directly relate to attacks on freedom of speech. They can directly relate to terrorism. And the impact in France is being compared to the impact of 9/11 in the United States. Boko Haram, by contrast, is viewed as a kind of civil war ... and it's all happening a very long way away.

What if Christians were held accountable for their words and acts in the United States? What if every time Pat Robertson uttered another nonsensical comment about gays causing hurricanes the National Council of Churches, the National Association of Evangelicals and the U.S. Conference of Roman Catholic Bishops were forced to parade in front of the cameras and issue apologetic statements because a Christian pastor had once again dehumanized children of God, who are still victims of hate crimes in this nation?