“The American Revolution continues. Instead of devouring its own children like the French and Russian Revolutions, it has produced more children: the abolition of slavery, woman’s suffrage, immigrants from around the world, full citizenship for Jews, the Civil Rights movement. Further afield, the American idea has empowered the struggle for freedom all over the globe... Many great tasks lie before us if the United States is to live up to the ideals of George Washington: better treatment of prisoners, which he insisted upon; the abolition of the death penalty, which he came to abhor and used only when his back was against the wall; an end to the incarceration of Haitians or other immigrants without cause; care for the weaker members of our society; less emphasis on lotteries and more on honest work: campaign funding reform; an end to covert support of dictatorships, and many other things.”