If the Kingdom of God is in you, you should leave a little bit of heaven wherever you go.

Reelection ought not to be the primary preoccupation of any politician. It ought to be standing up for truth and justice.

The problem is not just affirmative action, though. The problem is poor people, working people and their children, and affirmative action for the most part doesn't even apply to them.

Profound music leads us beyond language...to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence.

There is no fundamental social change by being simply of individual and interpersonal actions. You have to have organizations and institutions that make a fundamental difference.

Courage is the enabling virtue for any philosopher - for any human being, I think, in the end. Courage to think, courage to love, courage to hope.

Anytime I look at a president, I don't care what color he is.