I had no intention of becoming an academic. How could a person who was having trouble reading become an academic?

I believe in the necessity for struggle by people at the bottom of any society.

I propose that there is another kind of power based not on resources, things, or attributes, but rooted in the social and cooperative relations in which people are enmeshed by virtue of group life.

I think that the question of how power can be exerted from the lower reaches has never been more important. It will ultimately determine whether another world is indeed possible.

Indeed, in US politics, 'poverty', along with 'welfare', 'unwed mothers' and 'crime', became code words for blacks.

There's nothing wrong with changing your mind if you think something's right at a certain moment.

I remember my father explaining, "A capitalist system is a dog-eat-dog system."

I feel your body against mine, while our lips are intertwined.

If your opponent is of choleric temper,   seek to irritate him.  Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.

Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.

When Jim Donell thought of something to say he said it as often and in as many ways as possible, perhaps because he had very few ideas and had to wring each one dry.

If any have a stone to throw It is not I, ever or now.

A president can be as strong as she wants to be.

Weakness is a guise. Wear it when they need to know you're human, but never when you feel it.

Choose the way of life. Choose the way of love. Choose the way of caring. Choose the way of goodness. It's up to you. It's your choice.

Our aim is not to do things by violence to opponents.

We cannot deny that people are suffering, and they are making that suffering known at the ballot box.