Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.
To be a Christian is to live dangerously, honestly, freely – to step in the name of love as if you may land on nothing, yet to keep on stepping because the something that sustains you no empire can give you and no empire can take away.
We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.
You can’t really move forward until you look back.[From Remaking America panel discussion at George Washington University]
To be a Christian – a follower of Jesus Christ – is to love wisdom, love justice, and love freedom.
It is a beautiful thing to be on fire for justice… there is no greater joy than inspiring and empowering others––especially the least of these, the precious and priceless wretched of the earth!
In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme. –Aristotle
As long as you’re scared you’re on the plantation.
We’re beings towards death, we’re featherless two-legged linguistically conscious creatures born between urine and feces whose bodies will one day be the culinary delight of terrestrial worms. That’s us.
We’re beings toward death, we’re … two-legged, linguistically-conscious creatures born between urine and feces whose body will one day be the culinary delight of terrestrial worms.
Of course, the aim of a constitutional democracy is to safeguard the rights of the minority and avoid the tyranny of the majority. (p. 102)
This market way of life promotes addictions to stimulation and obsessions with comfort and convenience.
I have tried to be a man of letters in love with ideas in order to be a wiser and more loving person, hoping to leave the world just a little better than I found it.
Without the presence of black people in America, European-Americans would not be “white”– they would be Irish, Italians, Poles, Welsh, and other engaged in class, ethnic, and gender struggles over resources and identity. (p. 107-108)
Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that’s being pushed to the margins, and you can see it.
There is something about boldness and fearlessness and being free enough to speak what is on one’s mind that warrants freedom.