Saturdays and Sundays, America in the year 2009 does not in some ways differ significantly from the country that existed almost 50 years ago. This is truly sad. – Eric Holder
I think that what Im doing is right. And election-year politics, which intensifies everything, is not going to drive me off that course. – Eric Holder
People feel uncomfortable talking about racial issues out of fear that if they express things, they will be characterized in a way thats not fair. I think that there is still a need for a dialogue about things racial that weve not engaged in. – Eric Holder
I dont even talk about whether or not racial profiling is legal. I just dont think racial profiling is a particularly good law enforcement tool. – Eric Holder
Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended at the exact moment when word of the murders on Cielo Drive traveled like brushfire through the community, and in a sense this is true. The tension broke that day. The paranoia was fulfilled. – Joan Didion