When it comes to our precious poor children of all colors, maybe disproportionally in percentage black and white and red, but all colors, yellow as well as white, we need to push toward integrated schools.

I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism--the idolatry of the 20th century.

Our problem is that we don't have enough people in America, including black people, who are progressive and willing to sacrifice their popularity in order to tell the truth.

Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it.

Poor people and working people have not been the focus of the Obama administration. That for me is not just a disappointment but a kind of betrayal.

For me the prophetic has to do with mustering the courage to love, to empathize, to exercise compassion, and to be committed to justice.

White supremacy is so deep-seated that it's hard to see it eliminated. But we could definitely push it back.