This is New York, and there's no law against being annoying.

At first blush, it seems that the young people who were shot down in the parking lot at the base of Blanket Hill gave up their lives for a dream that died with them.

Our bodies must always be wherever that struggle and the moment we forget that, the moment we become lazy, the moment we sit back, then then the evil ones do their ordained tasks to us.

A dog is like a liberal. He wants to please everybody. A cat really doesn't need to know that everybody loves him.

May 4th is a particularly memorable day in American history because 84 years to the day before May 4, 1970, there was another demonstration at the Haymarket Square in Chicago.

There is a vast need for all types of protest today, whether it be civil disobedience, or whether it be on a - more conventional variety.

Civil disobedience is a viable political tactic, and a non-violent tactic.

A dog is a liberal... He wants to please everybody.

So May 4th in the labor movement has always been an important date.

I believe in civil disobedience among other forms of resistance in times when it's called for.

I favor massive civil disobedience, among other things. It is not the only thing that is used to protest any grievance in society. But it is one of the most effective under certain conditions.

Learn to master your thoughts and watch closely what you deposit into your spirit. Speak over your life. Living in peace has transformative power.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

The pure mathematician, like the musician, is a free creator of his world of ordered beauty.

I met Picasso when I was a kid. I turned one of his drawings down which would be worth £37 million now. My dad wouldn't talk to me for a fortnight.

I'm a terrible punster. And I love to rhyme. I just can't help myself.

For as good habits of the people require good laws to support them, so laws, to be observed, need good habits on the part of the people.

Everybody's in New York and, hopefully, my younger kids will go to college in New York and find something they want to do so they'll stay in the city

Of course, screening for HIV did essentially eliminate the transmission of this virus by transfusions.

That was the first time I ever saw him smile. It transformed him from someone menacing to someone you wished you knew.

They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me.