by William J. Clinton

About the author: William J. Clinton is the forty-second president of the United States.

Those of us who grew up in the segregated south are perhaps more sensitive to all these various hate crimes issues because we grew up in a culture that was dominated for too long by people who thought they only counted if they had somebody to look down on; that they could only lift themselves up if they were pushing someone else down; that their whole definition of a positive life required a negative definition of another group of people. That’s really what this is all about....

Oppression

When you strip it all away, down deep inside there is this idea that you cannot organize personal life or social life unless some group feels better about itself...