To be great in our times too often means to have great prosperity and no moral magnanimity at all.

Addiction is the dominant form of a culture that suffers from a superficial spectacle and celebrity-connectivity at its center. It's a form of spiritual emptiness.

Martin Luther King was not a Marxist or a communist, but his radical love leads him to put poor and working people at the center.

Music is the very cement that has not just held the black community together but holds black selves together in a fundamental sense.

I would want to conceive of philosophy as grounded in the very long humanist tradition that is the best of the West, which is open to the East and North and South.

The condition of truth, is to allow suffering to speak. Which means attend to suffering of the least of these, of the orphan, the widow, the poor, the working people, the gay brother, the lesbian sister, the transgender, the black people.

We are intent on building a movement. The next step is grassroots town meetings. We must keep alive the dialogue around the covenants.