If racism can't be shown to be natural then it is the result of certain conditions, and we are impelled to eliminate those conditions.

We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.

Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.

But remember, this power of the people on top depends on the obedience of the people below. When people stop obeying, they have no power.

But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is... to tell the truth.

Education can, and should be, dangerous.

There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.

Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.

Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.

They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win.

The problem in this world is not civil disobedience...th e problem in this world is civil obedience.

If you have no troubles – buy a goat.

The various levels of problems and issues are interwoven, so that solving any one of them without simultaneously addressing the others rarely works for long.

I'd say 95 percent of my audience was white. They were mostly kind of older hipster folks like myself.

I've been lucky to travel through quite a bit of Europe and Australia, but I would love to do Asia and South America and South Africa.

I made lots of talks and challenged lots of people.

When there is nothing else to say, I go for a smoke

Let me posses what I now have, or even less, so that I may enjoy my remaining days, if Heaven grant any to remain.

Because I know I'm an addict, and I know I'm an alcoholic.

Planning is design. As a designer what I tend to do, and what's different from being a painter, is that I interact with other people, and the people have things they need to have happen.

He took a duck in the face at 250 knots.