And when I talk about love, I'm talking about something that's great, though, brother. I'm talking about something that will sustain you.

I wished the president [Barack Obama] were more "Martin Luther King-like."

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.

Market moralities and mentalities-- fueled by economic imperatives to make a profit at nearly any cost-- yield unprecedented levels of loneliness, isolation, and sadness. And our public life lies in shambles, shot through with icy cynicism and paralyzing pessimism. To put it bluntly, beneath the record-breaking stock markets on Wall Street and bipartisan budget-balancing deals in the White House lurk ominous clouds of despair across this nation.

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

The only countervailing force against organized money at the top, is organized people at the bottom.

You've got to be a thermostat rather than a thermometer. A thermostat shapes the climate of opinion; a thermometer just reflects it.