Cornel West: I think this question has much to do with what we are trying to do here in this historic square right now. We are trying to come together. We are trying to constitute dialogue. We are trying to encourage one another, inspire one another, empower, enable, and ennoble one another in such a way that we are not fundamentally identified with our relative and respective national leaderships. We are free human beings and free citizens who speak our minds, who make our own judgments, who decide who speaks for us, not just politically but also morally and ethically. And the decent human beings in various nations around the world can come together and bring principal criticism to their own governments without being thrashed as unpatriotic, but simply saying that justice always has value over any national loyalty, that equality and democracy always have value over any patriotic sensibility. We are citizens of the world and we are human beings on this planet Earth who are wedded to all human beings. And, when our governments get in the way, they become secondary. And that, for those of us who are Christians, the cross always has priority over any flag because that cross is about justice and love; and whether we are religious or not, if we’re moral, ethical, sensitive human beings, our moral principles have priority over our national ideologies.