The paradox of race in America is that our common destiny is more pronounced and imperiled precisely when our divisions are deeper.

We want an economic team, Paul Krugman and Robert Kuttner, Joseph Steiglitz's people and others, who say, you know what? We're sophisticated economists but we're concerned about poor and working people.

No community dictates to any individual how to live their lives. You can criticize and you can push but people freely choose.

My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, he's always had to fear being a white man with black skin. All he has known culturally is white. He has a certain rootlessness, a deracination.

Of course, the aim of a constitutional democracy is to safeguard the rights of the minority and avoid the tyranny of the majority. (p. 102)

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

We will not allow this day of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial to go without somebody going to jail.