Every people, in order to remain healthy and strong, has to have a grasp of its foundation story. Culture is a chrysalis - it is protective, it takes care of you. That's what cultures are for. You cannot rob a people of language, culture, mother, father, the value of their labor - all of that - without doing vast damage to those people.
Randall RobinsonFor anyone who is not white in America, the affronts are virtually across the board.
Randall RobinsonI 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.
Randall RobinsonI was really worn down by an American society that is racist, smugly blind to it, and hugely self-satisfied.
Randall RobinsonBush people didn't like him, and they never liked him. They didn't like him because they don't like democracy. They like you to have an election, but they like you to elect the people they want you to elect.
Randall Robinson