The courage to be is the most difficult thing for any human being.

When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.

Cincinnati like so many other cities, we know that so many of our schools, when it comes to public schools, are still de facto segregated racially. It has to do with residential segregation. It has to do with James Crow, Jr., which is at work, de facto rather than legally so that some of the integration is taking place among more and more well-to-do.

Christians got a lot of work to do. But, the spirit of Dorothy Day is alive. Martin Luther King is still alive. Malcolm X and the prophetic Islamic tradition is still alive. We can't lose sight of those prophetic religious folk who, even given their kin in the same tradition, says, you all are wrong on this, but we're still in the same tradition.

The evil is so ubiquitous in terms of objectification of all of us, that one can say that almost about any TV and even radio show.

Martin Luther King was a radical democrat, by which I mean someone who is a foe of wealth inequality.

Too many young folk have addiction to superficial things and not enough conviction for substantial things like justice, truth and love.