We want an economic team, Paul Krugman and Robert Kuttner, Joseph Steiglitz's people and others, who say, you know what? We're sophisticated economists but we're concerned about poor and working people.

Too many young folk have addiction to superficial things and not enough conviction for substantial things like justice, truth and love.

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.

It's true that you might be socially isolated because you're reading in the library, at home and so on, but you're intensely alive. In fact you're much more alive than these folk walking the streets of New York in crowds, with no intellectual interrogation and questioning going at all.

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

Jesus loves a free black man.

There's simply no philosophizing without a love of wisdom, absolutely.