There are enormous opportunities to work for a world that is more free, peaceful and just.

The Republican and Democratic Parties are only factions of the Government Party.

Another recollection is that [ Paul Johnson] mostly kept away from ideas and dedicated activism, and concentrated on sex lives and other gossip.

The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations.

What right does the US have to do anything in Colombia? Does Colombia have the right to bomb North Carolina? There are more Colombians dying from tobacco than Americans dying from heroin.

Sectors of power are not going to favor the flourishing of dissidence.

In fact, there is a very close correlation between human rights violations and US aid, particularly in Latin America.