Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own?

African cavalry mounted on rhinos or hippos would have made mincemeat of European cavalry mounted on horses. But it couldnt happen.

History as well as life itself is complicated -- neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.

No government is here forever. And there are other forces - the most potent force in our society, in fact, big business - doing good for the environment.

One person making a wrong decision affects the whole country.

The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island isolated in the Pacific Ocean — once the island got into trouble, there was no way they could get free. There was no other people from whom they could get help. In the same way that we on Planet Earth, if we ruin our own [world], we won't be able to get help.

Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots.