If Martin Luther King looked at the Obama administration and saw an intimate connection with Wall Street, he'd be very critical. If he saw drones being dropped on innocent people, he'd be very critical. If he saw rights and liberties violated by secret policies of the government, of the kind we've seen by the National Security Agency, he'd be very critical.

Hatred of injustice is not the same thing as a love for everyday people.

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

Courage is being true to yourself, true to a sense of integrity.

Philosophy is fundamentally about how you come to terms with living your life and trying to do it in a wise manner, and, for me, that means decently and compassionately and courageously and so forth.

American citizens have been killed abroad by drones with no due process, no accountability, no judicial review.

Martin King was fundamentally committed to the least of these [poor, working people]. Of course, he was a Christian soldier for justice from the 25th chapter of Matthew.