The governments and the hard-headed military establishment and the general conservative part of America have never taken much interest in democracy, anyway.

Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty, which robs people of the freedom to satisfy hunger; or to achieve sufficient nutrition, or to obtain remedies for treatable illnesses or the opportunity to be adequatley clothed or sheltered, or to enjoy clean water or sanitary facilities.

Sometimes one makes a distinction between urgency and importance. And while disasters are urgent, the basically most important thing is education. And that's what gives it ultimately urgency too, because unless you do it now, this important thing gets again and again postponed.

There's no reason why one need not look at the content of education just as one is expanding the availability of school, because it doesn't cost more money to get them [a] better education. It requires better textbooks, it requires a vision, it requires a determination, but it's not very expensive to do that anyway.

I believe that virtually all the problems in the world come from inequality of one kind or another.

The governments and the hard-headed military establishment and the general conservative part of America have never taken much interest in democracy, anyway.

The lack of economic freedom could be a very major reason for loss of liberty, liberty of life.