You're trying to just leave the world a little better.

Education is soul crafting.

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

It takes unbelievable spiritual courage, moral fortitude, to engage in militant nonviolence.

In that chocolate side of town, in my blessed city of Sacramento, California - that was beginning of my death shudders, that's why Kierkegaard and Kafka began to make sense to me when I was very, very young - that radical sense fragility of life and inevitability of death; those trucks coming, if the truck came at a same time I was on the bridge, I was in the creek -my body would be the culinary delight of terrestrial worms.

Empathy is not simply a matter of trying to imagine what others are going through, but having the will to muster enough courage to do something about it. In a way, empathy is predicated upon hope.

Some people don't want to be morally consistent. They just want to be tied to their one issue.