Randall Robinson

I'm aware that because America is so powerful - with its tentacles reaching out to the world - one doesn't escape it…

— Randall Robinson

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

— Randall Robinson

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

— Randall Robinson

Whites have more than eleven times the net worth or wealth of African Americans. They make greater salaries. Our unemployment rate is…

— Randall Robinson

“Unbalanced power poisons introspection. In its vacated space lay living society's imperative questions, unseen, unphrased, unasked, unanswered.”

— Randall Robinson

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

— Randall Robinson

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…

— Randall Robinson

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

— Randall Robinson

The whole future of America's black community is at risk. One out of every three young black men in Washington, D.C., is…

— Randall Robinson

I don't know of any situation where you're going to have an officeholder in a country of eight million people who's cut…

— Randall Robinson

We all have to die, and I preferred to have just one death. It seems to me that to suffer insult without…

— Randall Robinson

I got a chance to be in a society where the barriers between classes - social and economic - are not insuperable,…

— Randall Robinson

I've always thought I had pretty good instincts for people. There is a short list of people I've worked with over my…

— Randall Robinson

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

— Randall Robinson

The U.S. has the largest prison population in the world: two million people. One out of every eight prisoners in the world…

— Randall Robinson

Condelleza Rice and Colin Powell are both dangerous people. What they did in Haiti [2004 U.S.-backed coup that ousted democratically elected President…

— Randall Robinson

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

— Randall Robinson

You try to steer a course in American society that's not self-destructive. But America is a country that inflicts injury. It does…

— Randall Robinson

I can't think of a more mediocre human talent than George Bush. He obviously is a product of family advantage, and he's…

— Randall Robinson

Bush people didn't like him, and they never liked him. They didn't like him because they don't like democracy. They like you…

— Randall Robinson

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

— Randall Robinson

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

— Randall Robinson

Every people, in order to remain healthy and strong, has to have a grasp of its foundation story. Culture is a chrysalis…

— Randall Robinson

“I am not a churchgoing man. Strangled in the vines of form and choked with ritual Christians, Sunday service held no appeal…

— Randall Robinson

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

— Randall Robinson