When I enter a library, when I enter the world of books, I feel the ghosts of the past on my shoulders urging me to speech. I hear Patrick Henry cry to the Burgsses, 'Is Life so dear, or Peace so sweet, to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?' I hear Sojourner Truth tell me that the hand that rocks the cradle can also rock the boat, and William Lloyd Garrison say, 'I am in earnest, I will not be silenced.'

The rich are different than you and me: they have more money and they have more power.

I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.

Nothing kinder than strangers. Nothing stranger than kindness.

I'm very honoured that there is a loyal following and I hope it continues

While we were walking around, we came to the Catholic church, and we saw that some people had set fire to carpets and banked them around the rectory, which was made out of wood. They knew every fire truck on the South Side was going to be in the park, that the rectory would just burn to the ground. Our one little act was putting out that fire.

The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon.