Some of the speakers we bring on campus may not reflect official church teaching, but that's how it is.
Racism cannot be separated from capitalism.
You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.
Not only the brothers on the street but the middle class brothers are also identifying with the gangster rappers because of the extent to which this music circulates. It becomes possible for the - not only the young middle class men, but it becomes possible for young middle class white men and young men of other racial communities to identify with the misogyny of gangster rap.
I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
I think we need to insist on a certain responsibility, which people have - particularly those who have made it into the ranks of the middle class because as [ Martin Luther] King said many years ago in a sense they have climbed out of the masses on the shoulders of their sisters and brothers and therefore, they do have some responsibility.
A fair trial would have been no trial at all.
Obama has had more fundraisers than the last six presidents combined. And he's still losing in the money race!
poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of the world we carry within us.
Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded. That all the Apostles would have done as they did.
Relational trust is built on movements of the human heart such as empathy, commitment, compassion, patience, and the capacity to forgive.