“I refuse to do anything that would help Republicans win a Senate seat in New York, and give the Senate majority to the Republicans.”

“Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'It is wrong for Black people to be anti-Semitic,' or 'It is wrong for America to discriminate against persons of African descent and made them slaves and based its wealth upon free labor,”