“We want government by the people, for the people, and of the people," said Fred Hampton. “Fuck this shit of government by the pigs for the pigs, and of the pigs. This town's hungry, and we need a barbecue.”

To grow coca in Peru, all you have to do is find an unclaimed hillside and cut down the trees. 

“White men are no longer the whole against which we measure all the parts, but one more angry special interest group. Once they were 'mankind,' now they're just another niche in the endless segmentation markers and identities.”

“The spirit of Gandhian agape that hung like a halo over Selma, with its nuns and angelic-faced students, was gone, replaced by a clenched militancy fueled by a despair expressed by Martin King's admission that his dream of Washington 1963 has turned into a nightmare.”

“Evidence in Knight’s apartment indicated that he moved in three worlds: the world of wealth and comfort to which he was born, the creative world of artists and writers, and the underworld of teenage hustlers. He kept the worlds separate”

“Detroit is a city whose horror reaches cinematic proportions, like 'The Living Dead Wear Kangols and Filas.' However you like your chiller theater, Detroit is the worst because it’s real.”

“Tom, who now lives in the Bronx, was raised on a plantation in the Delta. Emmett Till was one of his best friends. Indeed, he was with Till until about 7 p.m. on the horrible, legendary 1955 night when Till was murdered allegedly for whistling at a white woman”

“I could not really grasp the fact that this woman, who could be such a perceptive and enjoyable companion, might have lived without shelter and food. She had known something frightening, something that was not civilized.”

The government calls this man ‘Subject D.’ During WWII, he collaborated with the Germans. For the past 40 years, he has been protected by the CIA. He lives in Westchester.

“Adam Berwid was the living converse of a Kesey nightmare: a criminally insane man whom the system was not reluctant, but anxious, to release.”