It's so easy to begin to demonize someone you think is so far removed and as the demonization begins to expand, it ends up being everybody but your friends. After a while everybody else but you. That is a slippery slope that is so easy to slide down, and that's what is dangerous.

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

I am not optimistic, but I've never been optimistic about humankind or America. The evidence never looks good in terms of forces for good actually becoming prominent.

We've been talking about this for a good while, the immorality of drones, dropping bombs on innocent people. It's been over 200 children so far. These are war crimes.

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

There's simply no philosophizing without a love of wisdom, absolutely.

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