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

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.

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

It takes a human being to not do wrong in return.

A moment in heaven and a lifetime in hell, that’s the story of my life.

It would be difficult to dispel ignorance unless there is freedom to pursue the truth unfettered by fear.

Telling the truth is the slow, mundane, difficult route to a meaningful life. Anything else is cheating.

I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver.

The power of doing any thing with quickness is always much prized by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance. - Mr Darcy

Honesty, like my mama always says, is always the best policy.

The key to creating health is figuring out the cause of the problem and then providing the right conditions for the body and soul to thrive. It isn't taking another medication.

Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.

We come from an inconceivable nothingness. We stay a while in something which seems equally inconceivable, only to vanish again into the inconceivable nothingness.