"I'm a revolutionary optimist. I believe that we can still turn this thing around."

"My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, he's always had to fear being a white man with black sk…"

"We must never give up on the possibility of radical change."

"The moral arc of the universe is long, but it bends toward justice. But it doesn't bend on its own."

"To be radical is to grasp things by the root."