Violence comes in many forms and can be particularly disturbing when confronted in an educational setting if handled dismissively or in ways that blame victims.

The new illiteracy is about more than not knowing how to read the book or the word; it is about not knowing how to read the world.

Think of the question of mass incarceration. Think of the coding that the Republican Party has used for years, whether they're talking about Obama or blacks or Willie Horton.

Getting ahead cannot be the only motive that motivates people. You have to imagine what a good life is.

Collective freedom provides the basic conditions for people to narrate their own lives, hold power accountable, and embrace a capacious notion of human dignity.

The present generation has been born into a throwaway society of consumers in which both goods and young people are increasingly objectified and disposable.

The ideology of hardness and cruelty runs through American culture like an electric current.

America has become amnesiac - a country in which forms of historical, political, and moral forgetting are not only willfully practiced but celebrated.

War is one of the nation's most honored virtues, and its militaristic values now bear down on almost every aspect of American life.

It is precisely through the indeterminate nature of history that resistance becomes possible and politics refuses any guarantees and remains open.

Under neoliberalism, culture appears to have largely abandoned its role as a site of critique.

But there's always a first time for everything

This is 911 dispatch, and the nature of your emergency… fire, ambulance, police or… physics?

Hope is the only good that is common to all men those who have nothing else possess hope still.

I was eleventh-grade class president. That was the first elective office I held until I came into Congress.

Part of what I enjoy about the theatre and acting is that sense of history.

Wild globalization has benefited some, but it's been a catastrophe for most.

I definitely think what drives technology companies is the people; because in a technology company it's always about what are you going to do next.

Great thinking is its own reward.

I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work.

In the way of Christ the reward of work well done is more work to do.