Even the notion that, you know,[Bill] Clinton was the black president strikes me as the greatest irony of all times.

Youth are becoming the site of society's nightmares.

The future doesn't have to mimic the worst parts of the present. There are new ways of sharing information, and as long as they don't give up on the importance of politics, the future is certainly open.

The United States has become addicted to violence, and this dependency is fueled increasingly by its willingness to wage war at home and abroad. War in this instance is not merely the outgrowth of polices designed to protect the security and well-being of the United States.

Students, in particular, now find themselves in a world in which heightened expectations have been replaced by dashed hopes.

Marginalized youth, workers, artists and others are raising serious questions about the violence of inequality and the social order that legitimates it. They are calling for a redistribution of wealth and power - not within the old system, but in a new one in which democracy becomes more than a slogan or a legitimation for authoritarianism and state violence.

Even the notion that, you know,[Bill] Clinton was the black president strikes me as the greatest irony of all times.