American citizens have been killed abroad by drones with no due process, no accountability, no judicial review.

You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people if you don't serve the people.

Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse.

If you've got on the one hand death, dogmatism, domination, and on the other you've got desire in the face of death, dialogue in the face of dogmatism, democracy in the face of domination, then philosophy itself becomes a critical disposition of wrestling with desire in the face of death, wrestling with dialogue in the face of dogmatism, and wrestling with democracy, trying to keep alive a very fragile democratic experiment.

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.

I must feel the fire of my soul so my intellectual blues can set others on fire.

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