Going all the way back to Jeremiah Wright and Tavis Smiley and Van Jones and even Shirley Sherrod and maybe even Maxine Waters and Charles Rangel. We're going to see what his [Barack Obama] response is.

It takes tremendous discipline, takes tremendous courage, to think for yourself, to examine yourself.

For me the prophetic has to do with mustering the courage to love, to empathize, to exercise compassion, and to be committed to justice.

We will not allow this day of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial to go without somebody going to jail.

We're learning lessons from Africa. And the lesson that we need to learn is, how do we straighten our backs up in the face of these oligarchs and plutocrats who are trying to snatch the best of our democracy away?

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Does he have a double standard for black critics as opposed to white critics?