I got a chance to be in a society where the barriers between classes - social and economic - are not insuperable, where money is not everything all the time.
The whole future of America's black community is at risk. One out of every three young black men in Washington, D.C., is under one arm or the other of the criminal justice system. These are the continuing consequences of slavery.
For anyone who is not white in America, the affronts are virtually across the board.
I think the evangelicals want to provoke an immense global disaster to precipitate the second coming of Christ.
Americans don't bother to notice anybody else in the world.
Bush has done more to create passions for what they call terror than any other Administration in this nation's history. I get rather afraid when the most powerful man in the world talks to, and gets answers back from, God.
I'm aware that because America is so powerful - with its tentacles reaching out to the world - one doesn't escape it by leaving. This is the most dangerous and disturbing time in my life.
Reagan was conservative, but he didn't approach global management with an unbending religious zeal.
I've opposed black regimes and white regimes, leftist regimes and rightist regimes. I'm close to Aristide because I have respect for him, but all that is beside the point.
Black people in America have to, for their own protection, develop a defense mechanism, and I just grew terribly tired of it.
You try to steer a course in American society that's not self-destructive. But America is a country that inflicts injury. It does not like to see anything that comes in response, and accuses one of anger as if it were an unnatural response.
The U.S. has the largest prison population in the world: two million people. The country with one-twentieth of the world's population has one-fourth of those in prison.
Democracy requires that if you who don't like the outcome of elections you have to tolerate it and then pursue your interest the next time around.
