Man cannot live by profit alone.

There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.

There are people in the world for whom "coming along" is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.

Ask any Mexican, any Puerto Rican, any black man, any poor person - ask the wretched how they fare in the halls of justice, and then you will know, not whether or not the country is just, but whether or not it has any love for justice, or any concept of it. It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

A ghetto can be improved in one way only: out of existence.

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.

You write in order to change the world ... if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.