We don't hear our president [Barack Obama] talking about the need for high-quality jobs for everybody, giving it priority, not just giving a speech in Detroit. That's fine, but speaking to Tim Geithner, speaking to Larry Summers. When are you going to make jobs, jobs, jobs a priority rather than Wall Street, Wall Street, Wall Street a priority? That's what I'm concerned about.

You're going to end up with a government in Egypt that is concerned about the precious Palestinians, the same way we ought to be concerned about both precious Palestinians and precious Jews.

The paradox of race in America is that our common destiny is more pronounced and imperiled precisely when our divisions are deeper.

So more and more black folk tend to be well-adjusted to [Barack] Obama's presidency, but does that mean they're well-adjusted to injustice? Because we don't hear our president talking about the new Jim Crow, the prison-industrial complex.

We need to put strong Democratic pressure on President Obama in the name of poor and working people.

Barack Obama has domesticated the left in such a way that we feel as if we have no alternative but him...I refuse to accept that.

You can't talk about truth unless you talk about yourself.