For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity.

When we revolt it’s not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe.

Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity.

Wealth is not the fruit of labor but the result of organized protected robbery.

Violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect

Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well.

A government or a party gets the people it deserves and sooner or later a people gets the government it deserves.

What matters is not to know the world but to change it.

To educate the masses politically is to make the totality of the nation a reality to each citizen. It is to make the history of the nation part of the personal experience of each of its citizens.

He who is reluctant to recognize me opposes me.

The oppressed will always believe the worst about themselves.

There are ghosts of yourself scattered everywhere, Whispers of a moment suspended in time, Where every life that you've brushed up againstNow lives with a piece of you trapped in their mind.

Curiosity is what separates us from the cabbages. It's accelerative. The more we know, the more we want to know.

Given that, and assuming that we begin to adjust to issues like climate change and the greenhouse effect, Denver's location in the center of the country becomes a tremendous advantage.

If I had a dream show, I probably shouldn't even mention it in this climate, but it would be like a kind of Fix It show.

For us, there's an inherent process when you're ending something to be thinking about the beginning, as writers.

I am the third Jenkin Jones to preach that liberal interpretation of Christianity generally known as Unitarianism.

One thing we are sure of is there's no one like Nelson Mandela out there. That's too bad for us.

A society in which men recognize no check upon their freedom soon becomes a society where freedom is the possession of only a savage few.

The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself

In 1968 the Arts Council managed to get a grant from the treasury to buy up a lot of derelict touring theatres and put them back in the hands of the local authorities.