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" The disgust and latent hostility I felt toward gays were subcategories of hatred, plain and simple. "

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" It takes too much energy to hate. "

" I am happy that the urgency to reform our broken criminal justice system has found allies all across the political spectrum. "

" In Newark, we see a problem and want to seize it, but we run up against the wall of state government, the wall of federal government that does not have the flexibility or doesn't see problems, even. At the federal level, it's often a zero-sum game: If you win, I lose. At the local level, it's just not local that. It's win-win-win. "

" I spent eight years living without heat and hot water. "

" When American citizens pull together, there is little we can't accomplish. "

" I am a geek nerd who happened to have a temporary period of jockiness. "

" Small acts of decency ripple in ways we could never imagine. "

" There was a small point in my life in law school, right before I moved to Newark, when I didn't know what I wanted to do, and I felt so lost. "

" My father passed away a few days before my election. This man, an African American born to a poor single mother in 1936 in the South, would worry in the last years of his life that he had better life chances when he was growing up than a young man born in the same circumstances would have today. "

" I think Newark has been in the crosshairs in every generation of the fight to achieve America. And I think Newark is a city that's at that crossroads still. "

" The majority of our criminals that we lock up are non-violent offenders. "

" I've been wrong on everything about Trump; I've been wrong about everything on the Republican side of the ledger. But allow me - with that caveat - to made the prediction that Donald Trump will not be the president of the United States. It just will not happen. "

" I live in Brick Towers, a public housing project in Newark's Central Ward. I moved in when the projects were privately owned by a man who the residents and I believed was a grade A slumlord. "

" I'm hopeful that at the end of my life, someone like Frederick Douglass would look at my life and say, 'Well done: you've proven yourself to be worthy of the legacy we left you.' "

" Innovators reimagine our world in so many areas. We need them to help reimagine what government can and should be. "

" The gay people with whom I am close are some of the strongest, most passionate and caring people I know, and their demands for justice are no less imperative than those of any other community. "

" I'm going to have setbacks and failures; I'm not going to see change right away all of the time or most of the time. But everybody I've ever respected has failed at one thing or another. I've definitely fallen on my face. But I've also had a comparatively easy life. "

" Life's too short not to try different things and to see what works for you and your body. "

" We're not called to be a tolerant nation. We're called to be a nation of love. "

" People are always trying to draw simplistic dialectics that can capture things. "

" Our platform is crafted by Democrats but it is not about partisanship, its about pragmatism. "

" Don't give in to cynicism. It is a toxic spiritual state. "

" Kids born into certain ZIP codes will most likely have certain educational outcomes. And we've got to end that. If we end that, we explode economic development. "

" I love seeing on Twitter when someone says I'm gay, and I say, 'So what does it matter if I am? So be it. I hope you are not voting for me because you are making the presumption that I'm straight.' "

" My whole life has been about confronting cynicism. "

" The change we seek for our nation is not the choice of an individual but must be the calling of a country. "

" My weakness in life is two men who seduce me all the time - named Ben & Jerry. "

" Having people that really reflect the spectrum of American experiences is important to have on the Supreme Court. "

" I learned about community organizing from my parents. As a child, their stories were so instructive. "