No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the initiative of the millions can produce a happier or more prosperous society.

Since my retirement I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens.

I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society.

I can't say that I've changed anybody's life ever and that's the real work of the world if you want a better society.

Without intervention today the cost of care for adults with autism will be significantly greater and the burden will no longer lie with the parents but on our entire society.

A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.

There are many things that people do happily that I can't imagine why they would do it... But I have to say that even though I am critical or judgmental of society at large I'm not critical of people individually. We are who we are.

I can't imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.

But on the other hand I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a Black person and a White person loving each other in a racist society.

Prison continues on those who are entrusted to it a work begun elsewhere which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.