Freedom without opportunity is a devil's gift, and the refusal to provide such opportunities is criminal

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

Through much of its history, the US did not have high inequality as compared with Europe. Less so, in fact. That began to change in the industrial age, reaching a peak in 1928, after the forceful destruction of the labor movement and crushing of independent thought. Largely as a result of labor mobilization, inequality declined during the Great Depression, a tendency continuing through the great growth period of regulated capitalism in the early postwar decades.

People have no human rights, only the rights that they can gain on the labour market. Above all, wealth and power have to be protected.

We're supposed to believe that oil had nothing to do with it, that if Iraq were exporting pickles or jelly and the center of world oil production were in the South Pacific that the United States would've liberated them anyway. It has nothing to do with the oil, what a crass idea. Anyone with their head screwed on knows that that can't be true.

You can go into the Library of Congress and find information on just about anything, but that doesn't do you much good unless you know what you are looking for.

What matters is what happens among the powerful.