Part of the challenge of the Barack Obama campaign was to try to neutralize that white backlash, and of course, he was masterful in doing that.

When black America is on the move, America is on the move.

Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.

The capacity to produce social chaos is the last resort of desperate people.

Martin Luther King was a victim of surveillance, and had great solidarity with victims of surveillance.

It is very difficult to sustain a high-quality relationship that has the kind of mutual intensity, that has a kind of mutual respect, without putting in time.

It's fashionable to be indifferent to other people's suffering