African-Americans who might have disagreed with candidate Obamas left-of-center politics voted for him in 2008 because electing a candidate with brown skin was too historic an opportunity to miss. – Alveda King
America wants solutions. America wants a leader. No more tabloid politics. – Alveda King
Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit. – Alveda King
My daddy, Rev. A. D. King, my granddaddy, Martin Luther King, Senior – we are a family of faith, hope and love. – Alveda King
In the depth of the near depression, that he faced when he came in, Barack Obama and Democratic leaders in Congress provided recovery funds that literally kept our classrooms open. Two years ago, these funds saved nearly 20,000 teacher and education jobs – just here in North Carolina. – Jim Hunt