Free people have a right to decide for themselves what they want to hear.

Conventional wisdom would have one believe.

The media, itself an arm of mega-corporate power, feeds the fear industry, so that people are primed like pumps to support wars on rumor, innuendo, legends, and lies.

If the Constitution can be used against one, it can be used against all.

The role of television is the illusion of company, noise. I call it the fifth wall and the second window: the window of illusion.

here and there in the barrios and the favelas, among those who have least, beat hearts of hope, fly sparks of Overcoming.

Elie Wiesel says that the greatest evil in the world is not anger or hatred, but indifference. If that is true, then the opposite is also true: that the greatest love we can show our children is the attention we pay them, the time we take for them. Maybe we serve children the best simply by noticing them.