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

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.

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

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

I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.

There is something so ludicrous in promises of good or threats of evil a great way off as to render the whole subject with which they are connected easily turned into ridicule.

Change of habit cannot alter Nature.

Senator Joe Biden is pretty clean and articulate for a white guy.

America will no longer settle for anything less than the best. We must reclaim our destiny.

I no longer scramble blindly through hardship. I no longer emerge from a bad time feeling relieved just to have survived. Instead of despairing, I try to find the lesson within the experience.

It is not difficult to find a religious justification for killing.

When you have a clear vision of your goal, it's easier to take the first step toward it.

Every day you've got running shoes on, it's a good day.

Out, damned spot! out, I say! One: two: why, then 'tis time to do't. Hell is murky!