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

You can't talk about truth unless you talk about yourself.

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

I think it's important not to view Martin Luther King Jr. in a narrow political manner. His fundamental commitment is to a radical love of humanity, and especially of poor and working people. And that radical love leads him to a radical analysis of power, domination and oppression. What's difficult is to situate him ideologically under a particular category.

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

I've been blessed, I think, to have tremendous joy in my life in pursuing my vocation, my calling.

You can see it in terms of the obsession on Wall Street with not just profits but greed, more profit, more profit.