I still have a righteous indignation at injustice, no matter what form it takes. It could be homophobia, it could be white supremacy, male supremacy, imperial arrogance, class subordination or whatever.

And when I talk about love, I'm talking about something that's great, though, brother. I'm talking about something that will sustain you.

Reelection ought not to be the primary preoccupation of any politician. It ought to be standing up for truth and justice.

I don't believe in the elimination of evil. But I believe in fightin' against evil.

Every empire suffers from hubris, arrogance and condescension, and therefore a moral blindness. That's true of the American empire, it was true of the British Empireearlier, and it will certainly be true of the Chinese Empire in the future.

Well technologically and so forth, it's a breakthrough, and yet [Birth of a Nation,] it's very white supremacist to the core in terms of the narrative content.

Justice is what love looks like in public.