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 ….

Condelleza Rice and Colin Powell are both dangerous people. What they did in Haiti [2004 U.S.-backed coup that ousted democratically elected Presiden….

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..

I can't think of a more mediocre human talent than George Bush. He obviously is a product of family advantage, and he's the worst American President ….

You plant twenty coconut trees over here, and twenty coconut trees over there, and you water this batch and don't water that batch. Of the batch you ….

For anyone who is not white in America, the affronts are virtually across the board..

I've always thought I had pretty good instincts for people. There is a short list of people I've worked with over my career with whom I've not been a….

I wanted to write and think. Activism is a displacing kind of passion..

I don't know of any situation where you're going to have an officeholder in a country of eight million people who's cut off at the knees by the most ….

Something is very, very wrong with American culture. The signs are everywhere. I think the country is in almost terminal descent..

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 o….

I've never had any trouble opposing people I've been close to. I've never worried about offending or bothering people I feel strongly about..

We all have to die, and I preferred to have just one death. It seems to me that to suffer insult without response is to die many deaths..

Whites have more than eleven times the net worth or wealth of African Americans. They make greater salaries. Our unemployment rate is twice theirs. Y….

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 any….

Black people in America have to, for their own protection, develop a defense mechanism, and I just grew terribly tired of it..

Black people in America have to, for their own protection, develop a defense mechanism, and I just grew terribly tired of it. When you sustain that k….

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 dan….

Small wonder our national spirit is husk empty. We have more information but less knowledge. More communication but less community. More goods but le….

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 ….

Americans don't bother to notice anybody else in the world..