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

It's a spiritual malnutrition tied to a moral constipation, where people have a sense of what's right and what's good. It's just stuck, and they can't get it out because there's too much greed. There's too much obsession with reputation and addiction to narrow conceptions of success.

I think philosophy is all about lived experience, which is to say life in the streets, life in a variety of different contexts.

The rage is still there but I found the right kind of channel, because it's tied to a love, it's tied to a struggle for justice. And most importantly, for me, it's tied to a recognition that I am a cracked vessel.

The only countervailing force against organized money at the top, is organized people at the bottom.

Martin Luther King wanted to be morally consistent and speak out against various things that were wrong, not just racism.

To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word.