When I was a boy, I was paid fifteen cents for a hard day’s work hauling hay. Decades later, a just-elected United States president asked me for advice on how justice is an economic issue. As a civil rights worker in the ’60s and early ’70s, I was arrested and beaten for fighting for freedom in rural Mississippi. Twenty years later, I found myself on a stage just to the left of President Ronald Reagan when he gave his “Evil Empire” speech.
