“Schools are no longer legally segregated, but because of residential patterns, housing discrimination, economic disparities and long-held custom, they most emphatically are in reality.”

There are few things more dangerous than a mixture of power, arrogance and incompetence.

There’s a terrible sense of dread filtering across America at the moment and it’s not simply because of the continuing fear of terrorism and the fact that the nation is at war. It’s more frightening than that.

I think the Republican Party is… accurately defined as a party that looks out for the interests of the very wealthy.

The soldiers in Iraq are fighting, suffering and dying . . . anonymously and pointlessly, while the rest of us are free to buckle ourselves into the family vehicle and head off to the malls and shop.

I think the Republican Party is… accurately defined as a party that looks out for the interests of the very wealthy.

There are few things more dangerous than a mixture of power, arrogance and incompetence.

The infant breaks his toy, bites his nurse’s breast, strangles his canary long before he is able to reason; cruelty is stamped in animals, in whom, as I think I have said, Nature’s laws are more emphatically to be read than in ourselves; cruelty exists amongst savages.

I am emphatically not a Nazi.

And I want to declare emphatically: Such a world is possible.