When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.

The only countervailing force against organized money at the top, is organized people at the bottom.

In the practice of radical love, you are embracing human beings across the board, but you do give a preference - very much like Jesus - to the least of these, to the weak, to the vulnerable. That includes poor whites and poor browns, as well as the poor in black ghettos.

It's so easy to begin to demonize someone you think is so far removed and as the demonization begins to expand, it ends up being everybody but your friends. After a while everybody else but you. That is a slippery slope that is so easy to slide down, and that's what is dangerous.

Martin Luther King wanted to be morally consistent and speak out against various things that were wrong, not just racism.

When you love poor people THAT MUCH, when you love 'working people' THAT MUCH, that makes you the freest man/woman in the country." - Cornel West in explaining that Obama is A fulfillment of MLK's dream not THE fulfillment of MLK's dream

The challenge artists face today is whether to be an underground, unheard genius, or to dilute their art for the marketplace.