It's clear that he was incredibly courageous in his critique of white supremacy, wealth inequality, and imperial power as it relates to war in particular. But it's easy to deodorize Martin King, to sanitize or sterilize him. And I simply want to reveal his radical love and his radical analysis as what they really were.

We must never so thoroughly disrespect someone that they are beyond the pale and, therefore, have no possibility of being changed.

Wall Street is stronger than ever.

It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.

confining life to an eternal present is an insidious form of soul murder

You've got to be a thermostat rather than a thermometer. A thermostat shapes the climate of opinion; a thermometer just reflects it.

Anger can be a bitterness that devours your soul while righteous indignation is morally driven, it's ethically driven.