In the practice of radical love, you are embracing human beings across the board, but you do give a preference - very much like Jesus - to the least of these, to the weak, to the vulnerable. That includes poor whites and poor browns, as well as the poor in black ghettos.

I think anytime we talk about transforming in capitalist society, we are talking about a process not a particular event so you can't talk about a socialist revolution.

The question is really how do we think seriously about this mechanism called a market. It ought to be determining not values but prices.

And as a Christian, I got something the world didn't give me, the world can't take away, so I find joy that can never be reduced to anything.

Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.

what I think separates me from most philosophers probably is that I'm a bluesman in the life of the mind, I'm a jazzman in the world of ideas.

This is what it is for Asians to be part of - support affirmative action, even though it may be against their interest, but they feel it's a matter of justice.