All individuals have the same value, not to be determined by market price. They're made in the image and likeness of God.

You don't begin by dehumanizing those who are dehumanizing you, because it contributes to the cycle of dehumanization in the world.

I like to be multi-contextual, which is much more important than being multicultural.

One of the things I love most about Martin Luther King is that he was willing to sacrifice his popularity in favor of his integrity. He was an honest man, and he would tell the truth.

We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.

It takes unbelievable spiritual courage, moral fortitude, to engage in militant nonviolence.

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

When you love people, you give them a priority. You have a sense of urgency about their pain.

Patriarchy is a disease and we are in perennial recovery and relapse. So you have to get up every morning and struggle against it.

When you are fundamentally committed to something that is right, you just decide to go down fighting. Period.

The aim is not for me to be right. The aim is to make sure that we keep the focus on the people who are suffering. That's what we're here for.

Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists.

You keep folks so intimidated. You can give them money, access, but they're still scared. And as long as you're scared, you're on the plantation.

There are three dominant tendencies in a neoliberal society: financialized, privatized, militarized. And when it comes to black poor people, we get all three.