The establishment, whatever rewards it gives us, will also, if necessary to maintain it's control, kill us

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 admiration were not generally deemed the exclusive property of the rich, and contempt the constant lackey of poverty, the love of gain would cease to be an universal problem.

This is one of those times when explaining a feeling cannot measure up to actually having the feeling

We also self-inflict violence, because violence is our only way of relating to the world, to others and to ourselves.

There are those who follow maps, and those who make them.

At a time when we are pleading with foreign governments to stop the export of cocaine, it is the height of hypocrisy for the United States to export tobacco.

Popularity has become its own justification.

We believe as much in the purity of races as we think they (the Whites) do...by advocating the purity of all races.

I'm a golf junkie, but I'm a sports fan. I'll watch pretty much everything that's on.

The forces that tend for evil are great and terrible, but the forces of truth and love and courage and honesty and generosity and sympathy are also stronger than ever before.

Success is one thing you can't pay for. You buy it on the installment plan and make payments everyday.