The U.S. has the largest prison population in the world: two million people. The country with one-twentieth of the world's population has one-fourth of those in prison.

I got a chance to be in a society where the barriers between classes - social and economic - are not insuperable, where money is not everything all the time.

We all have to die, and I preferred to have just one death. It seems to me that to suffer insult without response is to die many deaths.

Reagan was conservative, but he didn't approach global management with an unbending religious zeal.

I was really worn down by an American society that is racist, smugly blind to it, and hugely self-satisfied.

I never met a white person till I was a grown man. I never went to school with a white till I was twenty-six years old, at Harvard Law School. The insult of segregation was searing and unforgettable. It has left a great scar, and will be with me for the rest of my life.

I got a chance to be in a society where the barriers between classes - social and economic - are not insuperable, where money is not everything all the time. Americans have been manipulated into a space by those who profit from the arrangements of that system. People feel a conscious disease - a dis-ease or an unease - but I don't think they know what causes it.