"We must never allow despair to become our default."

"I'm a truth-teller, a justice-seeker, and a love-warrior."

"We need to recover the best of the American democratic tradition, which is a tradition of dissent, of protest, of resistance."

"It's like a Weimar America."

"I'm a jazzman, a bluesman, a revolutionary Christian. I'm a mess, but I'm a beautiful mess."