To say that corrupt means corrupt the ends is to believe in the immaculate conception of ends and principles.

The despair is there; now it's up to us to go in and rub raw the sores of discontent, galvanize them for radical social change.

True revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism. They cut their hair, put on suits and infiltrate the system from within.

They have the guns and therefore we are for peace and for reformation through the ballot. When we have the guns then it will be through the bullet.

Control healthcare and you control the people

Never let a crisis go to waste

History is a relay of revolutions.

In the beginning the organizer's first job is to create the issues or problems.

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

The fourth rule is: "Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules." You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.

The establishment can accept being screwed, but not being laughed at

I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can.

Given that we cannot know all the elements in a problem, we never can solve it.

What's better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?

I'm on VH1 now, will be working on ITV's This Morning again from September.

I still believe in Hope - mostly because there's no such place as Fingers Crossed, Arkansas.

Sometimes what seems like surrender isn't surrender at all. It's about what's going on in your own hearts.

I think we as Americans know there's a much better alternative than the 17th century practice of burning rocks to power our economy.

That's the classical mind at work, runs fine inside but looks dingy on the surface.

Each nation has its own peculiar method of work. Some work through politics, some through social reforms, some through other lines. With us, religion is the only ground along which we can move.