For most of the history of the American empire, government has been a tool for preserving and furthering the power and might of white male corporate elites.

Reelection ought not to be the primary preoccupation of any politician. It ought to be standing up for truth and justice.

Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it.

It would just be nice if we had leaders in Washington who could unequivocally take a stand on behalf of democratic movements in other parts of the world. And even this is true for even Brother Barack Obama.

One of the things I love most about Martin Luther King is that he was willing to sacrifice his popularity in favor of his integrity. He was an honest man, and he would tell the truth.

I'm not romanticizing black people, because we've got gangsters like everybody else.

In the practice of radical love, you are embracing human beings across the board, but you do give a preference - very much like Jesus - to the least of these, to the weak, to the vulnerable. That includes poor whites and poor browns, as well as the poor in black ghettos.