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.

Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

A man may call to mind the face of his friend, but not his own. Here, then, is an initial difficulty in the way of applying the maxim, Know Thyself.

You can't write drunk.

This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper.

Thinking is trying to think the unthinkable: thinking the thinkable is not worth the effort.

I am the Angel of the Sun Whose flaming wheels began to run When God's almighty breath Said to the darkness and the Night, Let there be light! and there was light.

That's important, I think, for people who come here to realize that we are here for only a time and we have an obligation of service and we need to keep things in perspective.

When you see stuff that's wrong... it's just wrong, man. You gotta point that out.

The success of any man with any woman is apt to displease even his best friends.

Knowing another is endless,' Shepherd had written; 'The thing to be known grows with the knowing.