Pandaemonium was inhabited by creatures quite convinved that the great Satan had their best interests at heart. Poor little devils.

Irresponsibility breeds irresponsibility. The finances of government are so central. You'd think that would be pretty obvious.

...there is simply nothing so important to a people and its government as how many of them there are, whether their number is growing or declining, how they are distributed as between different ages, sexes, and different social classes and racial and ethnic groups, and again, which way these numbers are moving.

To strip our past of glory is no great loss, but to deny it honor is devastating.

It has proved politically wiser to set goals than to start programs.

The amount of violations of human rights in a country is always an inverse function of the amount of complaints about human rights violations heard from there. The greater the number of complaints being aired, the better protected are human rights in that country.

At the heart of the deterioration of the fabric of the Negro society is the deterioration of the Negro family.