Fifty years is the long time to think about a thinker's relevance or to think of the relevance of their work to a contemporary period.

Counter-violence against the colonial regime is liberatory because it is an act, and by acting, the absolute power of colonialism, internalized by the colonized, is shaken.

Violence is the first means and the last resort to pacify a people, and thus is something we need to continue to consider after the gunfire has ended.

Many of the democratization projects are a real threat to real democracy.

The grand schemes of liberation, however indistinct and amorphous, can quickly be compromised, consumed by petty disputes and local hatreds.

Manicheanism is like a vacuum, it is an either or situation that curtails or destroys the development of liberatory thought.

The military defeat of an oppressive regime is important, but it does not answer our problems. It is where our problems begin, since social change cannot be reduced to a military solution.

The revolts themselves open up something very new. One has to be aware, or listen, or open one's mind to what are the new beginnings.

The Syrian people do not recognize themselves in the elite politics of the Muslim Brotherhood or the left, each of which is looking for an external power rather than the people's own self-activity.

It's much easier on the emotions when one sees life as an experiment rather than a struggle for popularity.

How long you will live in your dreams? The time is now, it's better to go and follow them..

Service dogs raise their masters' sense of well-being.

It's true that most people find it far more comfortable to trust an authority than to have their faith questioned.

Cheerless poverty has no harder trial than this, that it makes men the subject of ridicule. [Lat., Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se Quam quod ridiculos homines facit.]

I have learned that I am enough... I have learned that no one else can LOVE ME - FOR ME.

People YouTube me and crap and then, they probably don't want to see me after seeing a friendly posted YouTube video, so I'm constantly having to take those down.

Fairness is not the end result, it's the opportunity. And everybody in America today has the opportunity to get ahead.

How good was Stan Musial? He was good enough to take your breath away.