To get up in the morning & do the monumental tasks that face us, our labor is best fueled by love.

Martin Luther King was a radical democrat, by which I mean someone who is a foe of wealth inequality.

Martin King was fundamentally committed to the least of these [poor, working people]. Of course, he was a Christian soldier for justice from the 25th chapter of Matthew.

Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.

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

You have to have a habitual vision of greatness ... you have to believe in fact that you will refuse to settle for mediocrity. You won't confuse your financial security with your personal integrity, you won't confuse your success with your greatness or your prosperity with your magnanimity ... believe in fact that living is connected to giving.

We want to bear witness today that we know the relation between corporate greed and what goes on too often in the Supreme Court decisions.