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.

Larry Summers, I think, he had a long history of arrogance and relative ignorance about poor people's culture and working people's culture and so forth.

I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism--the idolatry of the 20th century.

Poor people and working people have not been the focus of the Obama administration. That for me is not just a disappointment but a kind of betrayal.

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

As long as hope remains and meaning is preserved, the possibility of overcoming oppression stays alive.

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