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

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.

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

Your present interests are not a solid basis of a career decisions. So, stop following your passion and Do What Is Valuable.!

Heaven and earthbegin in the unnamed:name’s the motherof the ten thousand things.

Life would be better if the Leafs would make the playoffs. Life would be perfect if they’d win the Stanley Cup.

I think a lot of the American people feel more than a little disappointed that the high-water mark for human exploration was 1969. The dream of human space travel has almost died for a lot of people.

None thrives for long upon the happiest dream.

What does a mama bear on the pill have in common with the World Series? No cubs.

You know only insofar as you can measure.

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

Woman is a necessary evil, a natural temptation, a desirable calamity, a domestic peril, a deadly fascination, and a painted ill.

None so little enjoy themselves, and are such burdens to themselves, as those who have nothing to do. Only the active have the true relish of life.