Many more people are poor and sick because of the life of MT: Even more will be poor and sick if her example is followed. She was a fanatic, a fundamentalist, and a fraud, and a church that officially protects those who violate the innocent has given us another clear sign of where it truly stands on moral and ethical questions.

Terrorism works better as a tactic for dictatorships, or for would-be dictators, than for revolutionaries .

How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.

In our time, the symbol of state intrusion into the private life is the mandatory urine test.

An individual deficient in the sense of humor represents more of a challenge to our idea of the human than a person of subnormal intelligence

Your least favorite virtue, or nominee for the most overrated one? Faith. Closely followed—in view of the overall shortage of time—by patience.

The whole reason for the success of Dr. King's civil-rights movement was that it was not a movement for itself. The civil-rights movement understood very clearly, and stated very beautifully, that it was a question of humanism, not a sectarian movement at all.