The main dividing line is still race. This is the issue that must be focused upon in all working class organizations.

We are all, after all, just human beings, and most of us have a lot in common.

I think the two issues, racism and chauvinism, are linked. Look at how much weaker was support for U.S. actions in Iraq among black people.

What needs to be grasped is that the system itself is the cause of all of the misery in the world. This is a simple but powerful idea.

Capitalism is, in Mao's language, the main contradiction in the world today and so our efforts have to be focused on ending this system and making a new one.

You can't take the view of some of the sectarian parties that hard issues can't be confronted when dealing with workers. If you don't confront these issues, what will ever change?

You have to get out in the world and meet folks on their own turf, something which a lot of urban radical intellectuals seldom do.

Most people in this country, while they might not be happy about things, also are woefully ignorant about many things. Sometimes people can learn, but other times they have to be confronted.

Most young people are or will soon enough be workers. They can help to energize and radicalize the workers' movement. And what revolution has ever succeeded without youth?

Of course we can talk about the radical potential of youth. But in the U.S. it is still the case that most youth are conservative and not very sympathetic to the working class.

Without an understanding of the issue of race and a willingness to confront it head on, the working class will not build its strength.

Turkeys can run with eagles but cannot fly with them.

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Those who are themselves incapable of great crimes are ever backward to suspect others.

There is a lack of context in contemporary education. And contemporary consideration - because we live in those interiorities so much. Especially young kids who live by surfing the Web.

The craving for power is in itself a sign of inferior abilities and unfitness for responsibility.

You see a kid making a film on a cell phone. He doesn't know what he's doing either. But it comes out kind of good.

Find joy in the ordinary.

In terms of experience with the police, everybody got those. It's such a reality.

I have a sense of destiny that you are led to the things you are supposed to do.

Learn to humble yourself, you are but earth and clay.