What we have is a more sophisticated form of imperialism, which is economic. But lurking in the background, always ready to go, is an armed force.

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.

Noise in the form of words'

For he did not seem to know any way to do a person a kindness but by killing him.

But sometimes, in tight corners, when your back is against the wall and the world is against you, you have to fight back in unexpected ways.

I love theologians, they know god cannot speak so they spend their energy trying to explain to us what his silence means

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Ages of faith and of unbelief are always said to mark the course of history.

The sum of all technical knowledge cannot make a master contract player.

The modern day anarchists known as the Tea Party, they believe in no government.

There are people who love you and people who hate you, but for me, more so, people only think they know me by how I act or perform on a tennis court.

I'm one of the few people that I know that sings better than they did 20 years ago.