I'm not ready to give you a clear answer on whether electoral politics holds any particular hope for progressives. It would mean that nothing I did ever mattered.

Why should American atrocities be merely unsettling, but a trip to Hanoi unconscionable?

Twice the Republicans in the California legislature tried to block my seating because of my trips to Hanoi.

They motivate us to play, be affectionate, seek adventure and be loyal.

A silent majority and government by the people is incompatible.

I think people are entitled to march without a permit. When you have a few hundred thousand people on the street you have permission.

Our crime was that we were beginning to live a new and contagious life-style without official authorization.

I am the Vietcong. We are everywhere! We are all Vietcong.

The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history thats least studied by historians is the 300 to 500 riots in the U.S. between 1965 and 1970.

Then you have [Donald] Trump. So it could be the tightest, most hazardous race in political history and we can't afford to allow Trump to slither through. So that's where I'm at.

Gentrification and consumerism... have destroyed the character of my favorite American haunts, like North Beach, Berkeley, Venice and Aspen.

God is but a supernatural spirit. He resides dormant in you, until you awaken to liberate yourself from this ignorance that you are body and mind.

A magician may step out without a purse, but he should never step out without a pack of playing cards.

A good conscience is an epitome of good life and a true standard of living

There are songs that make you cry, right?""Sure, " I say."When you're dead, everything in the world is like a song that makes you cry.

Memories and loneliness look backward, fear looks around, but faith always looks forward.

One of the mistakes women have made is to romanticize life in the rose-covered cottage and then, discovering their error, proceed to romanticize life in the working world.

If you're cool, you don't know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain't.

Because a known fact is better than an unknown fact.

Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance while they grow; but crush'd or trodden to the ground, diffuse their balmy sweets around.

Are you afraid of the good you might do?