No form of violence can ever be excused in a society that wishes to call itself decent

One of the sad realities today is that very few people, especially young people, read books. Unless we can find imaginative ways of addressing this reality, future generations are in danger of losing their history.

The true character of a society is revealed in how it treats its children.

Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.

Racism is a blight on the human conscience

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

I found solitary confinement the most forbidding aspect of prison life. There is no end and no beginning; there is only one's mind, which can begin to play tricks. Was that a dream or did it really happen? One begins to question everything.