Be willing to learn, because none of us know the truth

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

Martin Luther King was a radical democrat, by which I mean someone who is a foe of wealth inequality.

I am not optimistic, but I've never been optimistic about humankind or America. The evidence never looks good in terms of forces for good actually becoming prominent.

We are a democracy and we don't believe in just hunting down gangsters and killing them. We believe in trying to find the gangsters and bring them back for trial, and give them a trial under rule of law. That's what democracies do.

There is something about boldness and fearlessness and being free enough to speak what is on one's mind that warrants freedom.

what I think separates me from most philosophers probably is that I'm a bluesman in the life of the mind, I'm a jazzman in the world of ideas.