Quote of the day
Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Orlando Patterson
Born: June 5, 1940 (age 83)
Bio: Orlando Patterson is a Jamaican-born American historical and cultural sociologist known for his work regarding issues of race in the United States, as well as the sociology of development. His book Freedom, Volume One, or Freedom in the Making of Western Culture, won the U.S.
Known for:
- Slavery and Social Death (1982)
- Freedom (1991)
- The Children of Sisyphus (1964)
- An Absence of Ruins (1967)