The only hope lies in the fact that the American people - like people everywhere - are basically decent people with common sense.

Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane.

Will Iraq be a democracy? The question is, 'Will America be a democracy?'

Education becomes most rich and alive when it confronts the reality of moral conflict in the world.

There has always been, and there is now, a profound conflict of interest between the people and the government of the United States.

Terrorism and war have something in common. They both involve the killing of innocent people to achieve what the killers believe is a good end.

...Surely, we must renounce nationalism and all its symbols: its flags, its pledges of allegiance, its anthems, its insistence in song that God must single out America to be blessed.