Barack Obama treated too lightly the people and forces determined to destroy him. They spat in his face and didn't even get ticketed for a misdemeanor.

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.

It's the people who are doing the nonviolent organizing at the grassroots that make me think there's still hope.

Presidents are afraid to lose wars. They're afraid to be outflanked on the right by the militarists. They don't want to be seen as soft on either communism or soft on terrorism or whatever. So presidents are constantly tugged away from their domestic commitments to foreign policy.

Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.

For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.