The difference between a crime of evil and a crime of illness is the difference between a sin and a symptom.

Working really hard is what successful people do.

People don't rise from nothing.

Acquaintances represent a source of social power, and the more acquaintances you have the more powerful you are.

Activism that challenges the status quo, that attacks deeply rooted problems, is not for the faint of heart.

Policy is driven by more than politics, however. It is equally driven by ideas.

When the students were asked to identify their race on a pretest questionnaire, that simple act was sufficient to prime them with all the negative stereotypes associated with African Americans and academic achievement. If a white student from a prestigious private high school gets a higher SAT score than a black student from an inner-city school, is it because she’s truly a better student, or is it because to be white and to attend a prestigious high school is to be constantly primed with the idea of “smart”?