... organized religion, in a dominating business society, can do only one of two things. It can either assure the communicant with uneasy bluster that God Himself likes money -- a theory which convinces nobody -- or it can give him an apologetic, halfhearted invitation to go out and get himself crucified.

In a business society, the emotional economy is an economy of scarcity.

I was so embarrassed I could feel my nerves curling like bacon over a hot fire.

being in the middle class is a feeling as well as an income level.

the role of the Do-Gooder is not what actors call a fat part.

The real nature of an ethic is that it does not become an ethic unless and until it goes into action.

you have to realize the white-supremacy boys are spoiled children. 'I want my way,' they scream, and like all spoiled children, they advance no justification for it except that it is their way.