Randall Robinson Quotes

We've been taught in America that big is best. That's why people have to believe that they must live in the greatest country in the world, which is absolutely idiotic.

I think people involved with institutions find it harder to know the time to go than the time to come.

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

Where does a black soul go to rest?

Democracy requires that if you who don't like the outcome of elections you have to tolerate it and then pursue your interest the next time around.

Black people in America have to, for their own protection, develop a defense mechanism, and I just grew terribly tired of it.

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.

I'm aware that because America is so powerful - with its tentacles reaching out to the world - one doesn't escape it by leaving. This is the most dangerous and disturbing time in my life.

I've opposed black regimes and white regimes, leftist regimes and rightist regimes. I'm close to Aristide because I have respect for him, but all that is beside the point.

I think the business community knows that half the world's oil reserves are gone. All the low-hanging fruit has been picked, and now there's the scramble for what remains.

I can't think of a more mediocre human talent than George Bush. He obviously is a product of family advantage, and he's the worst American President of all time.

For anyone who is not white in America, the affronts are virtually across the board.

I wanted to write and think. Activism is a displacing kind of passion.

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

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.

People need their history like they need air and food.

I think the evangelicals want to provoke an immense global disaster to precipitate the second coming of Christ.

Americans don't bother to notice anybody else in the world.

Something is very, very wrong with American culture. The signs are everywhere. I think the country is in almost terminal descent.

I've never had any trouble opposing people I've been close to. I've never worried about offending or bothering people I feel strongly about.

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.